The Age photos of the week, January 3, 2026
The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age
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The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age
January 3, 2026 — 11.39am
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Out: Steve Smith was cleaned by Josh Tongue on Boxing Day. It was one of 20 wickets to fall on the first day of play.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Sea Forest founder and CEO Sam Elsom., Triabunna, Tasmania. Sea Forest listed last week on the ASX and is growing a special variety of Australian seaweed Asparagopsis that reduces methane emissions when fed to feedlot cattle by up to 80 per cent.Credit:Matthew Newton
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Young ‘Nipper’ lifeguards from the Mentone Surf Lifesaving Club, Harley Mead, 9, Asher James, 12 and Gabriel Durgutovic, 10. Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Cranbourne West Secondary College Rob Duncan executive principal with VCE high achievers.Credit:Joe Armao
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Jeremy Weinstein says he wants to continue expressing his Jewishness openly.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Copper Doctors founder Brian James with employee Paul Martini with completed works at Melbourne Town Hall.Credit:Jason South
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Audrey Tunks 20 months old, her brother Elliott Tunks 3yrs and parents Sam Tunks and Madeline Scott at home in Frankston. Audrey has a grade 4 medulloblastoma that can’t be treated by surgery or existing treatments. Her family are hoping that research into alternative cancer treatments may help people like Audrey.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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The Age journalist Grant McArthur cops a ribbing from The Barmy Army’s Milo (Bishop) and Charlie (Beefeater) as they celebrate a wicket during the Boxing Day Test match, MCG. Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Andrea Ruff is a volunteer for Lasagna Love, a charity in which volunteers make lasagne in their own homes and then deliver it to people in need. Making lasagne to deliver to five people in Ballarat, helped by her son, Joshua, 5.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Shoppers Saim and Hafsah Khan at the Boxing Day sales in Melbourne.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Behold the vikings in full voice - members of the North Queensland Vikings indoor cricket team arrive for The Ashes, Australia V England Boxing Day Test at the MCG.Credit:Justin McManus
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Naum Sekulovski taking Red light therapy at P3 Richmond Recovery Lab for recovery from exercise equipment.Credit:Justin McManus
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Beach-goers Declan and Caliber, 2, enjoy some of the last hot weather 2025 had to offer.Credit:Joe Armao
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Heather Smith and her husband Ken at their Patterson lakes home. Melbourne Water has proposed increasing the tariff on 300 residents who live on the shores of three “quiet lakes” that have no outlet. Formerly fresh and swimmable, they are now regularly covered in blue-green algae.Credit:Joe Armao
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Zac Howard with children Ollie and Zara and Lachlan Beckett with his wife Amy and children Charlotte and Edward. Falls Creek Child Care centre is in danger of being closed down. The centre is a crucial service for families living and working on the mountain.Credit:Justin McManus
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Holidaymakers enjoy the Yarra River near Studley Park Boathouse.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Nigel Watson in Jimmy Watson’s, the venue started by his grandfather 90 years ago.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Scott Boland of Australia. Australian Cricketers meet the fans at the MCG on what should have been day 3 of the Boxing Day Test.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Traffic jams due to Westgate Bridge Lane closures for annual road maintenance between Christmas and New Year.Credit:Joe Armao
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Young ‘Nipper’ lifeguard from the Mentone Surf Lifesaving Club, Asher James, 12 training at Mentone beach.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Gus and Lou Berger at their recently opened 81 seat cinema the Brunswick Picture House in Sydney Rd, Brunswick.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Punt Road resident Michael Teluk and Punt community campaigner Andrew Carrasco outside an apartment block that is under public acquisition overlay that residents of Punt Rd want removed.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Lifeblood donor services nursing assistant Amira Nor Azhar with Peter Ruther at The Melbourne Red Cross centre.Credit:Joe Armao
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John and Anne Mennen installed a round Plunge swimming pool at their Cottles Bridge home last summer.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Paramedics Luke Harrington and Alex Hemsley have been subject to abuse whilst on the job. Credit:Simon Schluter
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Mark Norris at home in Melbourne with his 14-year-old border collie, Millie. Mark was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer (glioblastoma) in January. He had a tumour the size of two mandarins removed within hours of his MRI, an operation he wasn’t expected to survive, and is at the end of his chemotherapy and radiation cycle.Credit:Simon Schluter