The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

One of those cases was among two new COVID-19 infections reported in Queensland on Sunday.

The angry residents are demanding to know why an environmental impact study has been ruled out for the Beaudesert-Acacia Ridge leg of the $15b project.

Confusing messaging on who stay-at-home orders apply to in WA has been rectified as Premier Mark McGowan comes under attack and the AFL gives next Sunday’s the green light, for now.

Anzac Day is one of Australia’s most important national occasions.

Jay and Alex both served in East Timor and Iraq, but only one was able to get tickets to the Anzac Day dawn service. They stood separately but together, on either side of a wire fence erected around the event.

A crowd capped at 1400 people attended the ceremony at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance after the event was cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19.

WA Premier Mark McGowan said some measures of the three-day lockdown would continue beyond Monday but said it was too early to tell what they would be.

Nappies are becoming one of the most significant waste streams in household bins, and a growing number of councils are offering rebates for those who switch to cloth alternatives.

Paul de Jersey also urged Australians to think about troops returning from Australia’s longest war, Afghanistan, while crowds turn out to cheer our servicemen and women.

A 55-year-old man has been charged after police said he threatened them with a knife after refusing an order to wear a mask outside a northern suburbs supermarket on Saturday.

Some staff in the state government’s aviation firefighting agencies have been accused of running a boys’ club and intimidating pilots to carry out unsafe tasks, with whistleblowers disappointed no action has been taken against perpetrators.

In the face of a discrimination incident, the leaders at Natalie’s high school rallied on behalf of queer students. It changed Natalie’s high school experience.

Regional travel confusion from mixed messaging means the virus may have already spread out to regional parts of WA after a new community case in the city on Saturday.

Crocheted or knitted blankets are positioned and wheelchair escorts in place. This is the spirit of the 4002 marchers who filled Elizabeth Street on a rather chilly morning on Sunday.

Inner Melbourne’s glut of empty offices and apartments could instead be used to revive the city’s ailing creative sector, which has been forced out of the CBD over the past 20 years.

Reviewing what is taught in Australian schools creates the opportunity to shape a world-leading national school curriculum.

Elvis Martin would have been spared months of pain if he had been supported by appropriate services when he was disowned by his family at 17 for being gay.

The political debate in Australia has placed little or no value on the memories and stories of refugees.

Lieutenant Peter Handcock is a convicted war criminal who murdered without mercy and his name does not belong on any war memorial honour roll.

The WA government issued an official direction at 8.58pm on Saturday night backdating stay at home orders to April 17 for people who had left the Perth or Peel regions to other parts of the state.

The woman driving the car saw the 31-year-old cyclist lose control of his bike before he collided with her vehicle, police say.

After devoting three decades to military service, David struggled to settle back into civilian life. Then, a powerful bond with an unlikely comrade changed his life.

What a difference a year makes. The public was back, allowed to sing and there was an impromptu performance of the Haka.

Fewer than 2000 people registered to march in the traditional Anzac Day parade from a capacity of 8000. Walk-ups are welcome for on-site registration.

The official Anzac Day Dawn Service in Sydney’s CBD on Sunday has been booked out but thousands will flock into the city to march down Elizabeth Street later.

We have so much to be proud of in our military history, why dwell on Gallipoli?

Fred Weir’s life ended not at war but when he returned to Australia - at his own hand, like so many returned service men and women. We should resolve to broaden the ambit of remembrance.

A top Victorian official says the state is delivering only a fraction of the vaccines it was capable of.

Kimberley Land Council chief Brian Wilkinson sacked after coming into conflict with the region’s power brokers over the operations of a charitable trust.

Recently I attended a graduation at Victoria Police Academy. It was interesting to cast an eye over the previous occupations of those who passed out that day.

Is it possible to simultaneously protect a 160-year Anglo-Celtic history and the (at least) 65,000-year-old Aboriginal culture when the two clash?

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today's interactive superquiz and target.

Renters in booming housing markets in regional Victoria are facing rising rent rises and stiff competition for tenancies.

A mother is demanding changes to Victoria’s consent laws after her 17-year-old daughter was allegedly raped several times by a stranger she got to know just five days earlier on Snapchat.

One can only imagine the sheer grief of those gathered in the Domain on that first Anzac Day in 1916, after a year of fear, loss and uncertainty, with hundreds of thousands of Australians still fighting away from home.

“That’s something you learn in the army,” WWII veteran Bill Craig said. “When it got dark in the jungle you can’t just go walking down Swanston Street.”

Byron Bay’s housing unaffordability crisis is “seriously fraying” the popular tourist town, says Byron Shire mayor Simon Richardson.

Home buyers and investors from Melbourne are contributing to soaring house prices, rising rents and gentrification in regional locations once considered affordable.

Climate change is not a matter of “unscientific insistence on immutable certainty”.

People who left the Perth and Peel regions to any part of WA since April 17 should be isolating as if they are in Perth and wearing a mask when they go out.

Local cenotaphs and streets are set to be the venue of choice for many Sydneysiders, while pubs are gearing up for a big day of two-up and community gatherings.

A study into women’s birth experiences has attracted 4800 stories in just three weeks, as women flock to share stories of procedures “they didn’t want”.

John “Wilko” Wilkinson, survivor of World War II and a legendary cameleer of the inland deserts, will march on Anzac Day, aged 100.

On this Anzac Day, we remind ourselves of the sacrifices, courage and selflessness which have helped make our country what it is today.

Australians desperate to return to lives and loved ones overseas are using the New Zealand travel bubble to defy the outward travel ban, despite threats of hefty fines or even jail time.

Two shipping containers for a storage area and kitchen/bar would be transformed into replicas of an old Italian coastal building.

Presented with the chance to move to Sydney in 1994, Terry Durack and Jill Dupleix thought: “Why would you not do that?” 

Up to 100 Australian primary schools will get coaching in how to teach phonics in the early years, in an 18-month program set to start in term three.

Idris Charles Pike wrote from Gallipoli: “We had some fun in the trenches this morning.”