The week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial review photographers.

It can be confusing figuring out what support is available during the pandemic. Keep reading for a rundown of what business owners can claim.

NSW is reeling after the deadliest day of its current outbreak, Victoria has gone from recording zero cases earlier this week to a statewide lockdown and Queensland’s outbreak continues to grow.

Researchers have confirmed what any beer enthusiast will tell you - craft beer is fundamentally different to mass market varieties on a molecular level.

The NSW government has promised to review its biodiversity offsets scheme, following criticism from Deputy Premier John Barilaro and lobbying from developers and the mining industry.

Two men have been bitten by a crocodile in Lockhart River in the Cape York Peninsula. 

Marcus Reubenstein, who runs the news website APAC news, says he was defamed by the suggestion his website was run by the Chinese Communist Party.

New close contact sites include the Park Run at Rocks Riverside Park in Seventeen Mile Rocks, and the Lions Rugby Union Club in Karana Downs on Saturday, July 31.

The former Darling Range member is facing a jail term after pleading guilty to a string of fraud-related charges which came to light after he wore a fake medal to an Anzac Day service in 2017.

The board of the megachurch has offered comfort to members and criticised media coverage of Brian Houston’s handling of his late father’s sexual abuse of children. 

A range of federal and state payments are available to people who are unable to work due to lockdowns or who are experiencing hardship. Here’s a rundown of the various kinds of support available.

HSC students must do their trials online and can only go onto campus if they live outside a hotspot, stay for less than two hours and arrange it with the school

Whatever you think of YouTube’s decision to suspend Sky News, it is clear social media platforms can control the message while being accountable to no one.

The traces could indicate the presence of an active case nearby, an infected person transiting through the area or a historical case.

Mike Falls, 83, started a jet charter business at Essendon Airport in 1981. He and his son, Mike jnr, have since flown everything from organs to rock stars.

On this episode of Please Explain, The Age’s chief reporter Chip Le Grand joins Tory Maguire to discuss Australia’s incredible showing at this year’s Olympics.

As conditions in WA’s hospitals continue to deteriorate, a government nurse recruitment drive trumpeted as the solution to the crisis is yet to begin.

Young people will now be the focus of Australia’s accelerating vaccination campaign. But what do all the reopening targets (and slideshows) mean? And when will vaccine supply catch up with demand?

The Wiradjuri professor, writer and public speaker discusses finding faith in her ancestors, the representation of Indigenous people and her greatest extravagance.

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Four people believed to be key organisers of anti-lockdown protests in Victoria were arrested or fined, with police expressing frustration about a number of “hardcore” repeat offenders. 

Four patients waited several hours to be admitted to hospital on Thursday, including two who were COVID-positive.

The officer struck the teenage boy with a baton in a second on-duty assault within four months.

Australia - with a Muslim population of about 1.2 million - is beginning to open up to the Islamic finance market, estimated to be worth $248 billion.

The coronavirus outbreak that pulled Victoria into its sixth lockdown has grown by four new local cases overnight, including a student who attends a specialist school in Melbourne’s south-west.

Queensland police have made contact with the woman but still don’t know where she is.

A magistrate took into account Stuart Bateson’s distinguished career in sentencing the former commander for the disclosures to a junior female officer.

Pot was what you took to the Chinese cafe for a big beef chow mein, ecstasy was getting the double at Flemington and ice was delivered by a burly man to families without a fridge.

Longreach mayor says a horse massacre has never happened before in the region.

Becoming renowned for crashing my car when my dad was the Victorian premier worked for a while. Until it didn’t.

Authorities have praised the “lockdown legends” for keeping the current outbreak under control, with 10 new cases on Friday all linked to the Indooroopilly cluster.

A woman in her 60s from south-west Sydney has died at Liverpool Hospital, the 22nd death in Sydney’s outbreak.

Students in hotspot areas will not return to school and all HSC trials and assessments will be done at home under the government’s revised HSC return-to-school plan.

The man returned two positive rapid antigen tests before a diagnostic PCR test returned a negative result, leading epidemiologists to question whether he had COVID-19.

QUT Professor Ziqi Sun was having a relaxing walk through the park when he stumbled across an insight that has led to ultra-fast-charging batteries.

Obituary writers, you’re on notice: I don’t need to be photoshopped.

Planning Minister Rob Stokes said that, despite having policies on everything from fruit flies to mythical panthers, NSW had no “policy on people”: “how many we can expect, where we want them to live and what their needs and attributes might be...

JobKeeper was flawed and costly, but no one could blame the government for its hiccups on the run. What is less understandable is that it wasn’t improved - and resurrected when we inevitably needed it again.

The biggest, most important data set available leaves us with an incomplete picture of who we are.

The Premier seems to be bereft of ideas and grasping at straws. The Prime Minister has no desire to lead. Where to from here?

Former NBA champion Andrew Bogut was front centre calling the Boomers’ battle against Team USA in Tokyo. But it wasn’t Bogut’s only tussle on the day.

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

Grazier digs up dinosaur skull, bad for moths (good for fruit), and $687,000 puts wind in sails

Sydney’s COVID-19 outbreak has leaked into the regions, Victoria is entering lockdown again after a fresh mystery case and Queensland is facing its largest coronavirus outbreak since last year’s first wave.

The latest COVID-19 outbreaks in Melbourne have prompted new restrictions. Here’s a list of the new rules.

Premier asks federal government to send more Pfizer vaccines to Victoria as he locks down the state for the sixth time in a bid to suppress a fresh coronavirus outbreak.

Three teenagers have been arrested after a 16-year-old was found with serious head and chest injuries in Sydney’s west. He remains in a critical condition.

One, two, three ... twenty-nine Mr Speakers.

More than 8600 staff at Australia’s largest local government will be able to get their COVID-19 vaccines on council time, reheating a union push for the state to offer similar.

Queensland authorities are becoming more hopeful the lockdown can be lifted on Sunday as planned, but experts warn specific targets still need to be met.