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

In the first week of the cameras’ full operation, 1504 drivers were slugged over $1000 for phone offences, while 278 copped $413 fines for seatbelt breaches.

Travellers will not be allowed to use the $10 COVID test to prove they’re virus-free before entering the state, despite its wide use in other parts of the country.

Separately, another Cricket Tasmania employee and Paine’s brother-in-law, who the female staffer also complained of being sexually harassed by, had his contract terminated in a confidential agreement with the state association also in 2018.

The Australian Rugby League Commission chairman has given the strongest indication yet change might be on the horizon for the NRL’s controversial player movement model.

At about 4pm each afternoon, happy hour arrives at Moree Showground. It’s the highlight of the day for a group of otherwise unhappy campers.

Fully selective schools are offering up to nine accelerated HSC courses - where students can sit part of their HSC in year 10 or 11.

Jennifer Holdstock knew she would make waves at Hawthorn Football Club by fighting for a seat on the board, but did not expect the pressure to drop her bid would be this great.

Fixing a blockage: a new campaign is addressing the fact that just 101 of Victoria’s more than 30,000 qualified plumbers are women. 

David Peever, the former Cricket Australia chair, has criticised the current board’s decision to “abandon” the former captain Tim Paine.

Everything you need to know about the first round of the A-League Men’s season, including teething problems for the league’s new streaming partner, a long-range strike from Bruno Fornaroli and Popa’s new brand at Victory.

Sophie Matterson, 32, has undertaken the long walk home - a 5,000km journey - with five camels coast to coast from Australia's western-most point in Shark Bay, Western Australia, to its eastern-most point in Byron Bay, New South Wales. Sophie left h...

The government will struggle to pass contentious bills in the Senate after two renegade Liberals called for an end to restrictions they consider unfair for unvaccinated people who are barred from events.

Without the captaincy, should Paine keep his spot in the team?

Sophie Matterson started her mammoth hike as the pandemic began and “couldn’t have picked a better time to head off into the desert with a bunch of camels”.

The Wallabies coach slammed officials after a post-siren penalty goal had sunk his side against Wales in Cardiff.

Well-funded and well-organised, India’s largely Sikh farmers have managed to strike a blow against the powerful Prime Minister and hold on to their middle-class way of life.

Opal machines will be turned off on thousands of bus services across Sydney’s west and inner west on Monday.

One of the stronger Canberra-based mid-week sprint teams in years is set to cut a swathe through Monday’s feature meeting on the Wagga Riverside course.

A nine-race card in the Riverina kicks off the new week for Racing NSW.

Sydney will be without a team in the WBBL finals for only the second time after the Sixers and the Thunder won just eight games between them in a forgettable campaign.

From Pakistani fires to Sao Paulo Fashion Week to Charles and Camilla at the Great Pyramids, these are the best photos from around the world in the past week, as chosen by The Sydney Morning Herald photo editors.

England’s Jimmy Anderson believes perceptions have stood in the way of more fast-bowler captains and says Pat Cummins is the right man to lead Australia’s Test team.

A snapped tendon could once mean curtains for a career. How do today’s dancers make it back on stage when disaster strikes?

It is claimed the university is continuing to underpay workers despite recently agreeing to backpay $8.6 million in unpaid wages and committing to pay correctly.

The warning comes as consumers are tipped to spend a record-breaking $5.4 billion in the upcoming four-day shopping bonanza, which kicks off this week with Black Friday.

Hiro Xu just wants to play putt-putt with his grandpa.

The risks of COVID-19 transmission among the fully-vaccinated are greatly reduced. But are they completely risk-free?

The first unrestricted flight between Singapore and Melbourne touched down on Sunday as a two-way travel bubble between Singapore and Australia was launched.

The only thing more interesting than the high-quality content that sometimes bubbles up on social media is how assorted platforms react when their supremacy is challenged.

Regardless of how the security footage was leaked, the Bulldogs only have themselves to blame as a club-changing signing has been clouded by a PR disaster.

Australian media companies are concerned about some rules outlined to govern televised debates in the lead-up to a federal election.

The former doubles world number had not been seen or heard from publicly since she said on Chinese social media on November 2 that former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli had coerced her into sex.

Apprentice Brock Ryan was comfortable in front of the empty stands when the spring started. By its end he was used to roars of punters’ adulation at the track.

Very few women see a disembodied penis and think, “Wow, what a magnificent willy, I must get to know its owner.”

The final week of spring will be wet, sticky and cloudy as dams stay full and flood risks remain.

The blazes burnt hot enough and high enough to kill thousands of giant sequoias – trees once considered nearly fire-proof.

The Middle East comes alive through a synergistic collaboration of saxophone, keyboard, guitar and percussion

It was a seemingly typical weekday in a suburban GP’s office in Perth when a doctor was asked to perform an illegal circumcision on a two-week-old baby girl.

In another world, AFL draft prospect Josh Rachele might well have been starting the A-League season, or better yet, helping the Socceroos qualify for next year’s World Cup.

Early in Peter Fensham’s life his father Horace’s cabinet-making business became sorely affected by the Depression. These years shaped Peter’s lifelong sense of social justice.

Kips Williams’ new production is certainly bold, but hardly beautiful in terms of the verse.

The project is expected to inject more than $1 billion into the NSW economy over 25 years and double the number of annual visits from 1 million to 2 million a year.

An organisation supporting women to set up businesses says thousands have sought help after losing work during the pandemic lockdowns.

In two hours of supreme spectacle and sunlight, an MCG crowd of 103,000 heard the Duke of Edinburgh declare the Games open. The first Olympic Games held in the southern hemisphere had begun.

Elijah Buol arrived in Australia as an orphan at the age of 16. Since then, he has built a life as a criminologist, humanitarian and father. He’s even been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia.

COVID-19 and remote learning have led private schools to soften their marketing, ad executives say.

Timber industry advocates have used freedom of information requests to try to access emails between prominent Australian National University scientist ecologist David Lindenmayer and environment journalists.

All too often students are left out of key conversations and decisions that directly affect their educational outcomes and futures.

With infections spiking again despite nearly two years of restrictions, the health crisis increasingly is pitting citizen against citizen.