The Age photos of the week 29 August 2021

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Fringe Festival director Simon Abrahams with artists Chlamydia Clementine (Ezra Miska), Jacob Steele and Asha Sym. In October, a group dubbed Decadent will hold a You Deserve a Medal party for the 2021 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Dress up, nominate yourself for the award you feel you deserve, head up the red carpet and make sure to prepare a one-minute acceptance speech because â€" hot tip â€" you’ll need it.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Alex Chung gives her children, Sophie, 6, and Alex, 3, props and allows play time to be messy. The siblings are among the Australian children calling on their own wondrous imaginations for entertainment, offering some reprieve for parents exhausted by the juggle of care, schooling and work, and tired of being told to “get creative” â€" particularly in Victoria where playgrounds are closed.Credit:Penny Stephens

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Silvia Kramska (R) with Kylie Elms wearing their Bala weight bracelets. The accessories are part of a national trend, with the bangles infiltrating traditionally basic black wardrobes in Melbourne, which accounts for 30 per cent of sales, while Sydney shuffles ahead with 31 per cent.Credit:Luis Ascui

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Andrew Mellody from Co-Ground and Jarrod Briffa from Kinfolk. The much-loved Kinfolk cafe has closed its doors after more than 10 years, the latest casualty among Melbourne’s charitable businesses as the pandemic cuts a swath through the city’s social enterprises.Credit:Jason South

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Formally trained dancer John Paul learns a TikTok routine from his 15-year-old daughter Charlotte. Since lockdowns shuttered his studios, Mr Collins has been learning TikTok routines with his daughter Charlotte, 15, to both teach them online and to make content for his school’s social media channels.Credit:Eddie Jim

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Alex Gow, musician and creator of One Guitar with the guitar at the centre of the podcast. The project involved a new Gibson acoustic guitar spending four weeks with seven Australian musicians, including Paul Kelly and Missy Higgins, who were tasked with creating a new song, then discussing how they created it and recording the song as part of the podcast.Credit:Penny Stephens

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Richard Pusey has been released from prison having served jail terms for filming four dying police officers after a crash on Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway and other offences, including assaulting a woman.Credit:Joe Armao

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Melburnians walk past the daffodils at Fitzroy Gardens during their two hours of exercise per day. The daffodils usually bloom from late August until early September.Credit:Scott McNaughton

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La Trobe Street, Melbourne. The sun is out, and Victoria is pushing through it's sixth lockdown due to the latest Coronavirus outbreak.Credit:Paul Jeffers

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Izzy Mann, 10, and Lenny Mann, 8, picking up home-schooling treats and showbags at Levi cafe in Murrumbeena. Credit:Eddie Jim

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Parent Nejla Mohammad says Al-Taqwa College and its community responded differently to the latest outbreak of coronavirus.Credit:Jason South

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Police are investigating a potential abduction of two children after a man allegedly entered a home and stole a Mercedes in Blackburn North.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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The DePaola family isolating in Shepparton: Mark, Amy, Tom, Alex and Zoe. A takeaway coffee from a Shepparton cafe was all it took to send Amy DePaola into quarantine for 10 days. Had she arrived 10 minutes later, she might have been spared.Credit:Justin McManus

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Former Melbourne footballer and MCC president Steven Smith at the MCG. Smith played 203 games at full-back for Melbourne, later became MCC president and an honorary life member, and still lives within earshot of the “G” and walks around it often. “I’ll walk there because it’s within the 5km,” he says. “It just feels so desolate. It lacks energy. It’s almost like it’s suffering as well. It’s as if it needs the attention. It needs people there. It’s actually sad that it’s so empty and quiet.”Credit:Joe Armao

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Lactation consultant Rowena Gray supports her daughters Emily, 13, Rebecca, 10 and Natalie, 8, with home schooling - and everything else - after her husband, Dan, died in December 2021.Credit:Penny Stephens

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Belinda Briggs, her partner Brad Boon and their son Narren. The family are isolating for 14 days after their Narren's school became a Tier 1 exposure site.Credit:Justin McManus

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Moira Deeming asked every council in Victoria about whether it was legal to put signs on toilets specifying they were for “biological” males and “biological” females.Credit:Jason South

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ADF personnel conduct COVID-19 tests at the Shepparton Showgrounds. Credit:Justin McManus

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Alisha Messina wants to warn other Australians about the dangers of cosmetic surgeons. Federal and state health ministers will soon start consulting the public on their understanding of medical qualifications and titles as they weigh up a ban on the use of the term “cosmetic surgeon”.Credit:Justin McManus

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Justin Somerville and Leo Frescos get the Pfizer jab at the Werribee drive-through vaccination hub. The Andrews government has set a target to vaccinate every Victorian year 12 student before exams start in six weeks â€" and to give a first dose to every child aged 12 or older by year’s end.Credit:Luis Ascui

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Caitlin Le Vaillant, husband Tobye and kids Teddy 8, Bertie, 6, and twins Beatrix and Ludo. The West Footscray mother doesn’t feel it would be best for her four kids to follow Victoria's Chief Health officer's recommendation for children over 5 to wear a face mask Credit:Penny Stephens

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Imam Alaa Elzokm says it is a “religious obligation to protect the wider community” by getting the vaccine.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Lutfiyes Shish Kebab owner Azem Elmaz hands Judi Hanlon a hamper of food to be delivered to families in need. hepparton is at the centre of Victoria's regional COVID outbreak, and Azem, who has always provided free meals to homeless, is delivering extra free meals to struggling families in isolation.Credit:Joe Armao

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Left to right: Chen Davidovich, Traude Beilharz and Gavin Knott are "on the cutting edge of where therapeutics are,” says Professor John Carroll, who hired them to Monash’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute.Credit:Eddie Jim

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Victoria's latest drive-thru vaccination centre has opened at the old Broadmeadows Ford Factory in Campbellfield.Credit:Paul Jeffers

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Nayana Bhandari observes practical barriers on top of vaccine hesitancy among some of Melbourne’s Indian community.Credit:Joe Armao

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