The Sydney Morning Herald Photos of the week, June 24, 2021
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Residents who live or work in the four LGAs of Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick and the City of Sydney have been issued a stay-at-home order as the COVID-19 outbreak continues to spread. announces new Covid restrictions across Greater Sydney as more cases are reported. Gladys Berejiklian at a COVID-19 update.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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People wear masks in the streets of Sydney CBD after several new COVID-19 cases were reported. Two in five NSW residents aged 70 and over have not received a single dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and GPs say the timing of the change to AstraZeneca eligibility means it is now unlikely NSW will experience a boost in vaccination numbers amid Sydney’s outbreak.Credit:James Brickwood
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A deep cleaning crew goes through Joh Bailey hair salon closed due to it being a COVID-19 exposure site. For many of the deep cleaning staff, COVID-19 hits closer to home than most. At least four of his crew, who come from the United Kingdom and South America, have lost parents or close relatives to the virus.Credit:Jessica Hromas
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Re-elected Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce’s son Sebastian runs up to his father as Joyce poses for photos during his swearing-in ceremony as Deputy Prime Minister. Governor-General David Hurley and Prime Minister Scott Morrison, appearing via video conference from quarantine at The Lodge, watch on from Government House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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The daughter of renowned neurosurgeon Charlie Teo has had her charges over a crash involving former Comanchero Jock Ross withdrawn at the eleventh hour. Nicola Annabel Teo, 26 (2nd from right), was due to face trial in Downing Centre District Court on four charges including dangerous and negligent driving occasioning actual bodily harm. At the time of the crash in September 2019, police had alleged that Ms Teo was driving a Toyota LandCruiser on Settlers Road in the Hawkesbury region, northwest of Sydney, when it collided head-on with a Harley Davidson motorcycle, ridden by Mr Ross. She had allegedly not kept left of the dividing line and not given her particulars to police. However, prosecutors withdrew all charges on Tuesday.Credit:Nick Moir
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Sydney artists Yasmin Smith, Anna May-Kirk and Dean Cross at the base of a Eucalyptus tree in the Centennial Parklands. The Eucalyptusdom exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum is about the significance of the tree in history, today and especially in Indigenous culture. Poets, writers, scientists, artists, film directors, sculptors and musicians have all contributed.Credit:James Brickwood
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NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet ahead of the 2021 State Budget, in the Jubilee Room at New South Wales Parliament House.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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CFMEU and locals picket Willow Grove in Parramatta. An injunction has been granted to halt work to remove the historic villa Willow Grove, which is to make way for the Parramatta Powerhouse Museum. A community picket was called in defence of Willow Grove on Tuesday morning, just days after the Land and Environment Court ruled against the North Parramatta Residents Action Group’s attempt to challenge planning approval. The action is said to have been sparked by contractors entering the 19th-century mansion with ladders and tools to begin pulling down the villa. Late on Tuesday, the NSW Court of Appeal restrained all work in relation to Willow Grove, pending an appeal hearing set down for July 2.Credit:Nick Moir
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Ali Mongta Finn, 21, says she experiences racism on a daily basis. Her brother was involved in an incident last year where he allegedly swore at a cop, and then had his feet kicked out from under him.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Dead trees in Barren Box Storage managed by Murrumbidgie Irrigation near Griffith in the Murray-Darling Basin, NSW. Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Sydney CBD streets are empty of office workers after another day of more locally transmitted cases of Covid-19. Credit:Janie Barrett
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Men carry the coffin of Bilal Hamze to Lakemba Mosque. Bilal Hamze was gunned down on Bridge street in Sydney’s CBD on Thursday June 17th. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Underworld boss, Bilal Hamze has been shot on Bridge Street in Sydney’s CBD and died in hospital from his wounds. Credit:Janie Barrett
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Truck driver Jimmy Ristovski “does laps of Australia every two weeks” at Cunnamulla in outback Queensland on his way to Adelaide via Bourke. Truck drivers will be on the road for up to 16 hours a day under a fresh push by the heavy vehicle regulator to give operators greater flexibility, despite warnings the gruelling schedules may risk safety.Credit:Krystle Wright
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Trucks near Cunnamullah in outback Queensland. Truck drivers will be on the road for up to 16 hours a day under a fresh push by the heavy vehicle regulator to give operators greater flexibility, despite warnings the gruelling schedules may risk safety.Credit:Krystle Wright
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Nick Whitlam fondly remembers the kitchen of his family home in Sydney’s western suburbs, especially the cabinet where his parents, former prime minister Gough Whitlam and his wife, Margaret, kept their alcohol. ‘‘It was filled with slivovitz brought from the local Yugoslav constituents, which we would sneak, and even though it tasted terrible it was an elixir to an adolescent boy,’’ Mr Whitlam said. Now the whole house, most of its wallpaper and even that cabinet from which the grog flowed freely the night that his father won the 1972 federal election, will be preserved as a national heritage asset thanks to a grant from the Morrison government.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce speaks with Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese behind the Speaker’s chair during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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North Sydney Boys year 12 Students, Crows Nest.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Sydney CBD buildings.Credit:Louis Douvis
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Chef Phil Wood’s other Passion is painting. He paints en plein air (on location) at McKell Park Darling Point. Credit:Louie Douvis
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Water Minister Melinda Pavey’s office has intervened in a stink over a plan to put an industrial-sized odour control unit in the middle of a much-loved bushwalking track in Sydney’s inner suburbs. Sydney Water’s proposal to place the infrastructure at the Two Valley Trail in Wolli Creek has drawn the ire of three local councils and four state Labor MPs, who are urging the authority to move it elsewhere. The proposed location of the odour control unit jeopardises long-term plans for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to finish the nearby Wolli Creek Regional Park by extending it east to Unwin Street, where the trail begins. Wolli Creek Preservation Society president Gina Svolos said the sliver of bushland and sandstone rock faces was treasured by the local community and that, as a result of the pandemic, its use had dramatically increased.Credit:Louie Douvis
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People wait for a COVID-19 test at the Sydney Eye Hospital testing site close to the NSW Parliament.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian speaks to the media during her daily COVID-19 update. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said she was ‘‘relieved’’ the national cabinet meeting confirmed vaccines would be distributed based on population size after the federal government provided states and territories with an outline of how many vaccines to expect this year.Credit:Nick Moir
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A pigeon is the only passenger on a deserted Sydney tram in the CBD, where streets are empty of office workers after another day of more locally transmitted cases of Covid-19. Credit:Janie Barrett
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Feral horses damaging the waterways along the Eucumbene River north of Kiandra. Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley has threatened to override NSW management of the feral horse population in Kosciuszko National Park as NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro dismissed the need for urgent action, saying she was being misled by green activists.Credit:Nick Moir
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Australian chef and restaurateur Matt Moran with his father Jim Moran, on the family property, Green Hills in Caloola, NSW Central West. Credit:Louie Douvis
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Gena and Tony Been with their daughters Winona, 5, and Daisy, 2, at the children’s pool at Bondi Beach. Announced as part of Tuesday’s state budget, amid concerns a large chunk of the population has never learnt to swim, NSW parents will be offered free swimming lessons for their preschool-aged children. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Dr Samantha Crompvoets, one of the people who originally blew the whistle on allegations of war crimes in Australia’s special forces, has come under serious attack in recent weeks. A loose grouping of media obsessed with ‘‘wokeness’’, veterans and social media trolls have piled on – the latter branding the Canberra-based sociologist ‘‘a vile slug’’ who ‘‘needs to be bashed’’. The latest trigger appears to be that Crompvoets, who has worked extensively on organisational psychology in Defence, has completed a book, Blood Lust, Trust and Blame. It has drawn fire from Defence Minister Peter Dutton, no less, who has said he is unlikely to allow his department to commission further Crompvoets-like ‘‘culture change’’ introspection.Credit:Dean Sewell
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Callubri Station in Nyngan grows wheat and wool and have now added high end accomodation and event spaces. Mike and Angie Armstrong with their son Eamon in their old shearing shed.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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TikTok is best known as the home of kooky viral dances but a new trend is emerging on the platform – and it’s Australian creators who are leading the way. While the content that’s become synonymous with TikTok typically has a homemade and often nonsensical quality to it, scripted and professionally shot narrative storytelling is becoming more popular on the app, with locallymade show Scattered last year becoming the first TikTok series to receive funding from Screen Australia. Co-created by Logan Mucha and Kate Darrigan, and written by the pair alongside Adolfo Aranjuez, Scattered launched on May 17 and tells the story of three friends who steal and accidentally lose the ashes of their friend during a wild sendoff none of them can remember well. Switching across two timelines – the morning after and the night before – the series explores grief with nuance and a sharp sense of humour.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Winter light in the CBD during the eastern suburbs covid19 outbreak in Sydney.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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With names such as Tumami and Black Betty Bam, more and more umami heavy spreads and condiments made from natural ingredients are popping up in Australian food stores. Some are thick and pungent, like fancy Vegemite, while others are packed with chilli, ready to enhance everything from avocado toast to bolognese. Umami, broadly, is a savoury flavour characteristic found in ingredients such as tomatoes, soy sauce, mushrooms and cured meats. It’s also ‘‘one of those words that’s spoken in hushed tones for fear of coming off like a pretentious foodie’’, says Cameron Stephens, founder of the online artisan condiment store Condimental. ‘‘However, condiments with umami are increasingly being embraced because of the mouthwatering sensation they create.’’Credit:Janie Barrett
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Choreographer Alice Topp and dancer Izaac Carroll who has joined her new company Project Animo. Carroll found that retired dancers were hurting without an outlet for expression. When Alice Topp hung up her pointe shoes at The Australian Ballet last year, dance stayed with her like a phantom limb. Something missing, invisible, that still gave her an itch she couldn’t scratch. After doing ballet class almost every day since she was a child, after innumerable performances, she (and her creaky hips) had to move on. But it felt like a guillotine had cut through her self-image. Who was she in this new world? She felt there had to be more she – and others like her – could contribute to the art.Credit:Nick Moir
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Jagwinder Kaur with her baby Gurmehar in her Sydney home. A bumper crop of babies conceived during the first COVID-19 lockdown last year resulted in the busiest start to the year for NSW public maternity wards in the past decade. Figures from the Bureau of Health Information’s Quarterly Report show 18,708 babies were born through public maternity services in NSW between January and March; 981 more than the same time last year, or a 5.5 per cent increase. It is the most number of births for a first quarter and the second highest for any quarter since reporting began in 2010. Figures from NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages back up the hospital data and show most of the growth has come from regional NSW.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Residents are fighting a plan to remove 60 trees at Parramatta Park to make way for 130 parking spaces, in a move labelled an ‘‘act of vandalism’’. The newly formed Greater Sydney Parklands plans to cut down trees in Parramatta Park as part of the People’s Loop project, which aims to remove the majority of cars from the core of the park to reduce conflict with cyclists and pedestrians. Parramatta councillor Patricia Prociv says ‘‘the heritage and history of the park is being sacrificed’’ in the name of progress.Credit:Louie Douvis
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Jake Smyth, co-owner Mary’s Group. His hospitality company runs a handful of venues across Sydney with revenue halved over just the last three days due to the eastern suburbs covid19 outbreak.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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When Racha Abou Alchamat migrated to Sydney from Damascus in 2015, she found it difficult to buy the food she missed from Syria. It sparked an idea for sharing her country’s cuisine in her new home. Beginning with a small stall at her children’s school fete, the idea blossomed into catering and events company Racha’s Syrian Kitchen, which Alchamat launched with help from Welcome Merchant, a social enterprise that connects entrepreneurial refugees with the wider community.
Former community development worker Marjorie Tenchavez founded Welcome Merchant in 2020. She knew most refugees and asylum seekers had all the tools they needed to become successful if given a chance. Rather than offer handouts, the enterprise creates opportunities such as pop-up food events for would-be entrepreneurs, helping them to overcome language barriers and technical difficulties.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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Jo Brighenti and Debbie Buller on an Orange Farm in Griffith. Jo Brighenti’s family has been growing oranges for four generations, with some of the trees bearing fruit since the 1930s. Debbie Buller runs a farm growing crops such as rice and wheat, and grazes sheep on her farm near Leeton. She is also president of the Murrumbidgee Valley Food and Fibre Association. The Murray-Darling Basin is a million-square kilometre swathe of eastern Australia that also serves as the nation’s most important food bowl. Governments have spent about $9 billion of the $13 billion plan earmarked to rescue the region after a century of excessive extraction.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Celebrity chef Manu Feildel is cooking up the next stage of his life after Seven axed My Kitchen Rules last year. But he says surging rent, food prices and wages mean he is unlikely to ever start another restaurant in Australia. ‘‘Never say never, but I think my wife would kill me if I did.’’Credit:Janie Barrett
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Kamalle Dabboussy still holds out hope he can bring home his daughter, Mariam, who entered Syria from Turkey under mysterious circumstances in 2015 and has been stuck in the Al Hawl refugee camp in Syria for the past two years. Credit:Tim Bauer
