The Age photos of the week 22 August 2021

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Circus contortionist Jarred Dewey. Along with four other artists in the company’s inaugural Circus Arts Incubator program, Dewey will get a $40,000 stipend for six months and a creative home at their sprawling Collingwood Yards HQ, with the challenge to “uncover the next Australian circus arts provocation”.Credit:Justin McManus

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A pop-up testing site is set up in the Palais Theatre car park in St Kilda to deal with a growing COVID-19 cluster has emerged in the area. Credit:Jason South

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Melbourne power lifter Ellie Won, 38, has watched as women across the powerlifting community shared their experiences online of being bullied and harassed by coaches and other lifters.Credit:Luis Ascui

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Toby Cummings and his son Louis, 8, enjoy themselves at Curtain Square park on Monday ahead of the announcement of tightened COVID-19 restriction that will, among other things, result in the closure of playgrounds.Credit:Joe Armao

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Werribee Secondary College year 11 student Abdul Kader. He can’t see his friends. He is stuck at home all day with his siblings â€" aged 2, 9, 16 and 18 â€" and his parents. He struggles with motivation and sometimes fears that his studies are suffering. These teenagers â€" Generation COVID â€" fear they may find themselves defined by this disruption, and by being forced to get to know themselves and each other in ways unfamiliar to previous generations.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Infectious diseases nurse Grace Carroll has been on the wards when the worst has happened at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Last July, Ms Carroll caught COVID-19 herself, giving her a rare perspective on this most extraordinary time.Credit:Eddie Jim

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Comma Tuckshop chef Matt Woodhouse and owners Adam Cruickshank and Megan Kwee. Cruickshank says the luxe bagel window in Moorabbin is "a business model that can be relied upon at the moment. That's what suits this current weird environment." Credit:Simon Schluter

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Cabaret and musical theatre veteran Paul Capsis lost all his work for 2020, which had been shaping up to be his busiest in a decade. This year, again, most things are cancelled or postponed.Credit:Luis Ascui

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Musical star Amanda Harrison now works as a real estate agent. She had $30,000 worth of cruises, voice-overs, bits and pieces cancelled. JobSeeker wasn’t enough, and their savings evaporated.Credit:Paul Jeffers

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Musician and opera singer Jessica Hitchcock at her home in Port Melbourne. The young Indigenous star says there are so few opportunities at the moment, she says: producers are gun-shy after so many lockdown cancellations, with no insurance or government guarantees to absorb the financial hit.Credit:Luis Ascui

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Bravery Award recipient Trinity Bennett and her mother Shannon Bennett at their East Gippsland home. Shannon, whose car plunged 50 metres off a cliff and landed on its roof says she would be dead if not for the bravery of her teenage daughter, Trinity. Credit:Rachel Mounsey

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Artist Reverend Glenn Loughrey, a Wiradjuri man. When you enter the grand St Paul’s Cathedral in the heart of Melbourne you see a glass window marked with his subtle artwork depicting the Aboriginal country on which it stands.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Victoria Police officers on patrol in Princes Park in Carlton during lockdown 6. Credit:Joe Armao

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Sikh Volunteers Australia workers (from left) Avtar Singh, Simranjit Singh and Manpreet Singh. A volunteer group famous for helping bushfire survivors and residents stuck in public housing towers during lockdowns has been blown away by the response to its quest to raise $600,000 to build a new kitchen. The appeal, by Sikh Volunteers Australia, had by 10pm on Thursday raised over $315,000 via crowdfunding site GiveEasy, after it was launched on Wednesday afternoon.Credit:Scott McNaughton

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Brie and Luke O'Loughlin met in June 2020 and were married less than a year later, in May 2021. With the first four months of their relationship spent only virtually, they feel the pandemic helped them forge a much deeper connection in much less time.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Retail worker Dara Knowles, 39, received his first shot of the AstraZeneca on Monday. For Mr Kowles, it was the prospect of being able to safely visit his parents in Sydney that made him come forward to get the jab. Credit:Penny Stephens

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Queenie van de Zandt, actor, singer, comedian, writer and one of Australia’s best-loved leading ladies, says it's unlikely that she will be able to use the $10,000 US visa she bought at the start of 2020 for a tour and the rock musical Next to Normal she was set to star in has been cancelled.Credit:Paul Jeffers

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Atong Atem outside Hanover House, which has been transformed by her work ‘Outdoor Living’, 2021. Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Yarra riverkeeper Andrew Kelly is stepping down from the role after what he says has been a wonderful seven years.Credit:Justin McManus

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Cyclist Rob Cianflone rides through the Melbourne General Cemetery in Parkville. Rather than being grim, the atmosphere in the cemetery seems serene and contemplative, far away from the angst caused by COVID-19 in the living world. Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Riesa Renata and Bowie, of Instagram account @masterbowie2016, at their home in Hurstbridge. The five-year-old Labrador retriever’s diet is fancier than that of many humans.Credit:Luis Ascui

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Daryl Kennedy at the intersection where his mother Rosemary Kennedy was fatally struck by a car. Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Tamika Hicks, who manages an early learning centre in Pakenham, says staff are on edge about COVID-19. Credit:Eddie Jim

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Change Co. managing director Tenille Gilbert is defying the gloom of the pandemic and has partnered with Yarra Trams and crowdfunding to open a cafe in the Middle Park light rail station. The charity For Change Co. will use the cafe, due to open in December, to employ and train people aged between 16 and 24 who are either homeless or at risk of homelessness.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Speech pathologist Paula Ferrari has found working while supporting three children with homeschooling during the latest lockdown so difficult that she has dropped 50 per cent of her paid work.Credit:Penny Stephens

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Angry Elsternwick residents protest outside the site where Woolworths wants to build 10 storeys of apartments above a store. After years of debate and a VCAT decision, Glen Eira council officers have recommended approving the development despite the angry residents and legal advice that a car park gated off is actually still legally a road owned by council. Credit:Joe Armao

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Lockdown has enabled former children’s entertainer Jimmy Rees, who hosted the ABC children’s show Giggle and Hoot, to recast himself as an adult comic. Rees’ highly successful Meanwhile in Australia videos about state premiers squabbling over lockdown have garnered more than eight million social media followers and 10.2 million fans on TikTok.Credit:Justin McManus

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Marcus Veerman, playground expert and CEO of the charity Playground Ideas, at the site of a much loved tree house put up without council permission beside Edgars Creek, Coburg North.Credit:Joe Armao

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Melbourne psychologist Chris Cheers says the effects of lockdown are cumulative. Lockdowns can affect our brains in many ways. Many people experience brain fog as prolonged anxiety, meaning we fall into a rudimentary state of cognitive ability. Stress hormones like cortisol rush through our veins.Credit:Joe Armao

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Zahara Valibhoy is turning getting the jab into a cakewalk. The Melbourne pastry chef has begun selling “post-vax cakes” featuring the slogans “yay, science”, “good jab”, “congrats on your vax!” and her personal favourite, “Poppin’ buttons for Sutton”.Credit:Joe Armao

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Joseph Haweil, mayor of Hume, at Banksia Gardens public housing estate, Broadmeadows. Infrastructure Victoria has released its 30 year strategy and it includes a call for the state government to more than double its social housing investment and redevelop rundown housing. Credit:Joe Armao

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Balnarring residents Sarah Meecham (front), (L-R back) Monty Kleverlaan, John Pederson, Renee Kostiuk, Michelle Thomas and Sharon Greenhill at the site where a new golf driving range will be constructed. The project went ahead despite fierce opposition from people living nearby who fear it will do environmental damage.Credit:Justin McManus

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Damien Aylward from Sault Restaurant, Daylesford. Rather than postponing bookings, people are now cancelling en masse because of the uncertainty of lockdowns 5 and 6. Some nights Mr Aylward closes the doors to his restaurant altogether because of cancelled bookings. Credit:Joe Armao

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Nicole Warren and her wife Jacqui say they will quit the SES. Ms Warren, an SES volunteer for three years who has conducted more than 100 callouts, said she had been subject to repeated homophobic slurs while in her SES workplace.Credit:Justin McManus

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John Caldwell has given up hope that 2021 can be salvaged as a trading period and is concentrating on getting the two CBD branches of his health performance business through to 2022.Credit:Jason South

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Mary Magalotti, 45, from Melbourne’s Preston West was left frustrated when she filled out the census for her two young children Jonah and Rosie. She was prompted to fill in a mother and father’s place of birth for her children even though her kids have two mums.Credit:Jason South

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Will Richardson, 19, and his mother, Charlotte Robinson, have been trying to get a replacement birth certificate for him for over a year. The taxpayer-funded office shut its doors and closed its phone lines to the public in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Without it, Mr Richardson, who lives with autism, can’t move forward.Credit:Jason South

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Maureen King hopes the documentary film "Marjorie Lawrence: The World at her Feet", will once again make the opera singer a household name.Credit:Justin McManus

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Police at the scene of a fatal crash on Flemington Road, Parkville. A Cheltenham mother and two of her young children died after their vehicle hit a pole and burst into flames on a busy inner-city road on Friday.Credit:Jason South

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Detective Senior Sergeant Joy Murphy is Victoria Police’s longest serving woman after almost 49 years in the police force.Credit:Justin McManus

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Joyce Sanders, the owner of second-hand bookshop Soldier and Scholar in Castlemaine, said she was fearful of Melburnians breaking lockdown rules and bringing the virus with them. Credit:Justin McManus

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Photographer Vanessa del Medico with her children Archie, Zoe and Ashton. For all six lockdowns, Ms Del Medico has had to shut her business and cut her staff loose. And six times she has navigated those headaches while juggling three children â€" seven-year-old Archie, who is in grade 2, and six-year-old twins Zoe and Ashton, who are in prep â€" with all the headaches that remote learning adds to pandemic parenting with her husband, Stephen.Credit:Justin McManus

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Health worker Khanh Tran gives Nicolette Kolozsi her first Pfizer jab on Sunday at the drive-through clinic.Credit:Paul Jeffers

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Greg Dee and Tracy Harvey with bakers Sophie Gibson and Thea Ebert at Elwood Sourdough. Daily sales at their stall, set up with council permission outside their house a year ago, have jumped 25 per cent during the past few lockdowns. The couple are selling about 40 sourdough rye loaves a day, compared to 25 before lockdown.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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