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Best photos of 2025: The Age’s year in pictures
The year in photos selected by our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.
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Aboriginal elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe at Camp Sovereignty, a meeting and ceremonial place that Thorpe originally set up during the 2006 Commonwealth Games to bring attention to the plight of Aboriginal people.Credit:Justin McManus
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Convicted murderer Erin Patterson being transported inside a prison van from Morwell Court precinct to Dame Phyllis Frost women’s prison in June.Credit:Jason South
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Mushroom killer Erin Patterson’s estranged husband, Simon Patterson, looks to the heavens after his second day on the witness stand during the trial in May.Credit:Jason South
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Wild weather with strong winds whips up dust from bare paddocks near Cressy. Farmer Scott Stewart deals with dust as best he can.Credit:Jason South
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Sinead and Alex Forster and their five-month-old son, Noah. The family lost their firstborn, Teddy, last year while Teddy was waiting for a heart transplant. Noah is now receiving treatment for the same condition and may need a heart transplant one day.Credit:Joe Armao
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Police searching a plantation at Porepunkah during the manhunt for Dezi Freeman.Credit:Joe Armao
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A distraught woman is consoled by friends after a fatal shooting in Champions Parade, Wollert.Credit:Jason South
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Reflection of a hot air balloon on a Docklands building.Credit:Joe Armao
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Pacific Blue’s Codrington Wind farm – Australia’s oldest commercial wind farm – is due to shut down in 2027 after just opening in 2001, its owners announced in February.Credit:Jason South
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Kylie Minogue performing at Rod Laver Arena in February.Credit:Joe Armao
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Single mother Beza Gizaw, with son Yeabsira, says her Flemington flat is her haven.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Mum Aimee used a donor egg from her sister to help create her identical twin daughters, Winnie and Dulcie, born last year, after many rounds of IVF. Credit:Justin McManus
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Tony Mokbel leaves court after getting bail at Victoria’s Court of Appeal in April.Credit:Joe Armao
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Yoorrook Justice Commission Uncle Henry Atkinson (Wollithiga clan) on country at Moira Lakes Barmah Forrest. He made a powerful submission to the Yoorrook Commission on the effects of colonisation on his family and people.Credit:Justin McManus
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Women playing bowls in Altona on a hot February day exceeding 40 degrees in Melbourne.Credit:Jason South
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Julie Freddy at Mejatto Atoll in Marshall Islands. She was born with birth defects consistent with radiation exposure after the US conducted 67 nuclear tests in the area between 1946 and 1958.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Uncle Rick Nelson leads the Dja Dja Wurrung dancers during a ceremony with members of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria and Premier Jacinta Allan on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Mt Alexander for the second round of regional statewide treaty negotiations. Credit:Justin McManus
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A mostly peaceful protest calling for action to be taken against the police officers who shot Abdifatah Ahmed dead in Footscray. His death caused deep grief in the African community, who called for additional community support in the area, instead of more police.Credit:Jason South
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Travis Lovett unfurls the Aboriginal flag at the top of Mount Noorat during his Yoorrook Justice Commission Walk for Truth. The site was an important meeting place for First Nations people of western Victoria. Credit:Justin McManus
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Quirky scenes inside the dog-friendly Pendant bar in Fitzroy.Credit:Eddie Jim