Gallery icon30 ImagesThe week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributors at The Age.July 11, 2026 — 12:31pm1/30New ballet mistress Nicole Savage (rear) conducted auditions for Moulin Rouge this week in Melbourne.Credit:Eddie Jim2/30Pedestrians navigate the heavy fog blanketing the mornings this week in Melbourne.Credit:Joe Armao3/30Uncle Grant Rigney says the government has not given a single water licence in the Murray-Darling Basin system to First Nations communities.Credit:Jason South4/30Epping Football Netball Club president Luke De Vincentis (left) with Matthew Fitzgerald, brother of Nathan Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald, who died as a result of head injuries, sustained during a match last weekend. Matthew, wearing his brother's jumper which the club says the number will be retired in honour of Nathan.Credit:Jason South5/30Empty platforms at Southern Cross station after regional V/Line trains were cancelled due to the Telstra outages this week.Credit:Jason South6/30Jack Gibson-Burrell is seen on the eastern pylon of the Bolte Bridge in Melbourne after vandalising it. Police were called to the scene at 3am on Tuesday following reports he had climbed up, trespassing on one of the 140-metre-high pillars.Credit:Joe Armao7/30Jack Gibson-Burrell surrenders to police after he descended from the Bolte Bridge after vandalising it.Credit:Joe Armao8/30Australian soccer fans watch the FIFA World Cup Round of 32 match between Australia and Egypt at Federation Square in Melbourne.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui9/30 Harvey Zielinski has written and directed a movie that screens at MIFF, and also plays the lead role - of Jake, a trans man, who used to be Sarah - as well as his twin brother, Sam.Credit:Justin McManus10/30Dave Hughes, Comedian and radio host has been making headlines for his vocal, viral criticisms of the Albanese government's sweeping tax and negative gearing reforms.Credit:Simon Schluter11/30Mule restaurant owners, Will and Rory at their venue in Torquay.Credit:Simon Schluter12/30Chiquita Searle, a public relations director has been happily single for 15 years.Credit:Ruby Alexander13/30Yumbos ice cream is closing. Toni Romeo, with colleague Brett Costa, and customers including Amanda Atkins, Diane Davidson and Paul Ekers.Credit:Simon Schluter14/30La Mama Theatre architect Meg White (left) and chief executive Caitlin Dullard rebuilt the cultural institution from the ground up, while holding on to its history.Credit:Eddie Jim15/30Wesley Hines, truck driver who, as a teenager, found a baby's dead body in a dam in Ballarat.Credit:Jason South16/30Professor Michael Dooley's research in the British Medical Journal Supportive & Palliative Care essentially ends a multi-decade drought of data, providing the first peer-reviewed clinical evidence on oral assisted dying medications since the Netherlands published in 2000.Credit:Jason South17/30Ric and Steph Perna at their rented home in St. Leonards. Ric has been diagnosed with terminal blood cancer as a result of not being protected adequately in his workplace. He is now taking legal action (after receiving a tiny payout) as lawyers are pushing for reform in how workplace cancers are dealt with in Australia.Credit:Chris Hopkins18/30Restaurant owner Mais Mazloum is optimistic about the future of Chapel Street.Credit:Simon Schluter19/30The Tartan Festival, celebrated 100 years since the world tour of the Australian Ladies Pipe Band, 100 female bagpipe players and drummers. At city square after the annual Tartan Festival march. Helen Dilks, 75, with Scarlett Cai, 13.Credit:Wayne Taylor20/30The Gospel Hall Melbourne church in Little Bourke Street, Chinatown.Credit:Chris Hopkins