Best photos of 2025: The Age’s year in pictures
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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
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Charlie Cameron celebrates during the AFL grand, where Brisbane defeated Geelong.Credit:Joe Armao
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Ngarra Murray takes a moment with the final treaty document during the Statewide Victorian Treaty Cultural Celebration.Credit:Justin McManus
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Shoemaker Wadih Yacoub, 96, in his Essendon home workshop. After learning the skill at the age of 10 in Tripoli, Lebanon, he still makes men’s shoes for a high-end Melbourne city shoe shop, McCloud Shoes.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Yothu Yindi performing Treaty to an ecstatic crowd during a Statewide Treaty Cultural Celebration at John Cain Arena.Credit:Justin McManus
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Musician Warren Ellis from The Dirty Three and The Bad Seeds.Credit:Arsineh Houspian
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Convicted murderer Erin Patterson’s barrister, Colin Mandy, SC.Credit:Jason South
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McLaren driver Oscar Piastri, second on the grid at the Melbourne Grand Prix.Credit:Joe Armao
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Premier Jacinta Allan at a construction site Docklands in May.Credit:Joe Armao
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Erin Patterson’s defence lawyer Colin Mandy, SC, at court.Credit:Jason South
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Sheep at a farm belonging to Benalla farmers, Stuart and Julie Green.Credit:Joe Armao
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Police search Mount Buffalo National Park for alleged gunman and fugitive Dezi Freeman.Credit:Joe Armao
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Mary Bronstein, writer and director of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, at the opening night film during MIFF.Credit:Joe Armao
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Nico Hulkenberg on the track at the Melbourne Grand Prix.Credit:Joe Armao
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Members of the comedy troupe, Sooshi Mango, were crowned this year’s Moomba Kings.Credit:Joe Armao
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Poppy, 4, chases a lamb after rainfall turned dusty paddocks into fields of green in Benalla.Credit:Joe Armao
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The Australian International Airshow at Avalon in March.Credit:Joe Armao
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Former Victoria Police officer Peter de Santo at Green Point in Hampton.Credit:Alex Coppel
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Premier Jacinta Allan with Veterans Minister Natalie Suleyman at Anzac Station, days before it opened to the public.Credit:Joe Armao
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The annual Queensberry Cup billy cart race held at North Melbourne in October.Credit:Joe Armao
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Jamie Melham after a winning ride with Half Yours at the Melbourne Cup in Flemington.Credit:Joe Armao
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Jockey John Allen on Ferago at Caulfield.Credit:Joe Armao
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Erin Patterson’s legal team entering court to defend her.Credit:Jason South
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The Brisbane Lions celebrate on the siren after defeating the Geelong Cats in the AFL grand final.Credit:Jason South
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Gout Gout on the night of his first 200-metre race against adult men at the Maurie Plant Meet at Lakeside Stadium in March.Credit:Luke Hemer
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Simon Goodwin at an August press conference at the MCG after it was announced the coach and club would part ways. Credit:Jason South
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Jess Wilson walking into the chamber in November after she was chosen to lead the Victorian Liberals.Credit:Jason South
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Victorian opposition leade Jess Wilson with her husband Aaron Lane and baby Patrick in November.Credit:Jason South
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Greg Lynn is led from court in handcuffs after his appeal in October.Credit:Jason South
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Emily Brown takes Geelong Cup winner Torranzino for a ride on a bush track.Credit:Jason South
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Ross Greenhalgh and Jason I’Anson with a zebra pelt at the family-run Greenhalgh Tannery, which has operated for 150 years on the outskirts of Ballarat.Credit:Jason South
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Ngarra Murray, co-chair of the First Peoples’ Assembly with the treaty bill. The Victorian treaty bill was voted through the Legislative Council of Victoria after winning the vote 21 to 16.Credit:Justin McManus
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Jason I’Anson retrieves pelts from the tumbler at Greenhalgh Tannery.Credit:Jason South
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Liv Croagh with her 17-month-old daughter, Audrey.Credit:Jason South
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Lady Gaga fan Fotini Koklas in a dress inspired by Gaga’s The Fame (2008) era.Credit:Jason South
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Rhonda Burchmore performs at the Victoria’s much-loved State Theatre, which is currently undergoing renovations.Credit:Jason South
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The “Belgrave Wizard” is a much-loved identity in the Dandenong Ranges.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Fashion designer Samuel Lewis with model Sascha Rose from Chadwick models, who is wearing one of his designs inspired by medieval chain mail.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Melbourne couturier Sonia Cappellazzo’s grey tulle gown (modelled by Charley Wakelin) and a strapless Van Der Kooij dress (modelled by Ursula Wlazlo) at the Royal Exhibition Building ahead of the Melbourne Fashion festival in February.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Travis Lovett makes his way up the steps of Parliament to complete the Yoorrook Justice Commission Walk for Truth. Credit:Justin McManus
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CFA volunteers in Ararat last summer.Credit:Simon Schluter
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ANU teachers protesting outside Ben Carroll’s Niddrie office in June.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Brisbane star Lachie Neale
celebrates after his club’s AFL grand final victory.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Jamie Melham celebrates her victory.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Grieving loved ones at the funeral for police officer Vadim De Waart at the Police Academy in Glen Waverley after he was killed on duty in Porepunkah.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Melton Mayor Steve Abboushi wants more state action on illegal dumping.Credit:Paul Jeffers
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Eighty-year-old costume legend Rose Chong, putting the finishing touches on 60 costumes she designed for Melbourne Opera’s production of Samson and Delilah in May.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Collingwood AFLW skipper Ruby Schleicher.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc during a practise session ahead of the Grand Prix at Albert Park.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Andi Snelling ahead of her production Happy Go Wrong in June.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Alex de Minaur during round three of the Australian Open.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Australian Ballet dancers Larissa Kiyoto-Ward, Lilla Harvey and Elijah Trevitt.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Nick Kyrgios returned to the Australian Open in 2025 after a three-year layoff.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Street food vendors at the Dandenong Ramadan festival.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Ballan CFA crew members Billy Smith, Matt Gorman and Ben Hatfield.Credit:Alex Coppel
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A March for Australia rally turned violent in August as right-wing groups, including the NSN, clashed with anti-fascist groups in Melbourne.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Reverend Father George Frangos at the Greek Orthodox Church in Thomastown.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Me Hui Gong, 91, dances in the living room of her North Melbourne public housing unit.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Alex de Minaur celebrates his third-round win over Francisco Cerundolo at the 2025 Australian Open.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Tyrone Cannon at the Melbourne Cup.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Harris Henderson and Mackie Hunter travelled to California with the Lifesaving Victoria Wieland Shield representative team.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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John “Two Guns” Walker, a former Bandidos sergeant at arms and boxer, was sacked from his role as a CFMEU shop steward amid the Building Bad investigation by Nine media.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Dingoes Ooti and Meliki at the Dingo Discovery Sanctuary and Research Centre in Toolern Vale.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Paul Levey was a victim of serial paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale. Abused daily as a child at a Mortlake presbytery, Paul is relieved the child abuser died this year, aged 90.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Drummer Lars Ulrich and lead singer and guitarist James Hetfield of Metallica on stage during the band’s M72 World Tour concert at Marvel Stadium in November.Credit:Paul Rovere
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Alex de Minaur in action during his second-round win over Tristan Boyer at the Australian Open.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Surf life saver Mackie Hunter in training.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Fashion designer Jason Grech and model Portia Jade Talib at the Melbourne Recital Centre.Credit:Alex Coppel
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Sheep farmer Duncan Barber on his Coliban Park property, near Redesdale.Credit:Alex Coppel
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Parents and pupils at Abbotsford Primary, a bilingual school where students are taught in English and Mandarin. Credit:Paul Jeffers
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Aspiring F1 driver Alana Gurney is one of Australia’s top female karting talents.Credit:Paul Jeffers
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First-time racegoers Brandon Lay and Tenisha Lim celebrate a $150 win at the Caulfield Cup.Credit:Penny Stephens
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Reverend Bill Morgan celebrating his 110th birthday with his great-grandson Flynn, 7, in October at Cumberland View Aged Care.Credit:Penny Stephens
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Melbourne artist Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis with her artworks that won the Telstra Multimedia Award at the 2025 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Zoe Daniel claimed victory on election night. But at the final count, Tim Wilson was victorious by 260 votes.Credit:Penny Stephens
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Sara Puhar with her children Freddie, 5, and Luna, 8, near their home in Yarraville.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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A heavy police presence as Victory fans march under the Swan Street Bridge ahead of the A-League finals in Melbourne.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Hume City Council councillor Jim Overend in front of the Craigieburn Community Hospital. Construction on the community hospital was completed, but it was fenced off and non-operational for months.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Rabbi Dovid Gutnick outside the charred entrance to the East Melbourne Synagogue after an arson attack in July.Credit:Aaron Francis
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Daniel Xu discovered a full train set in the crawl space under this newly purchased home.Credit:Aaron Francis
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The Newcastle Jets celebrate winning the 2025 Australia Cup final between Heidelberg United and Newcastle Jets at Lakeside Stadium in October.Credit:Luke Hemer