Trans rights activists are forced back by mounted police outside Parliament House in Melbourne as they attempt to disrupt an anti-trans ‘Women WILL Speak’ rally.
Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The Guardian
Botanist and ecologist Dr Robert Kooyman in Nightcap national park, investigating the lack of regeneration after the black summer fires.
Photograph: David Maurice Smith/The Guardian
Photograph: Sia Duff/The Guardian
Asmaa Elkhaldi in her western Sydney apartment. She fled Gaza in late 2023.
Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian
A flock of sheep at a CSIRO research station in Armidale, NSW. Scientists are aiming to breed the perfect merino sheep for Australian conditions.
Photograph: Simon Scott/The Guardian
Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian
The raising of the Blue Mud Bay Sea rights flag during a bungul ceremony to mark the opening of Warraw Sea country pavilion on the Gulkula ceremonial grounds at Garma.
Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian
Marcia Langton poses for a portrait in Melbourne while holding a copy of a book she co-edited, titled A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne. The university is confronting its long, complex and troubled relationship with the country’s Indigenous people.
Photograph: Tamati Smith/The Guardian
Rangeland goats in holding yards in Lightning Ridge, NSW. Australia’s feral goat problem has been turned into one of the country’s major export markets.
Photograph: Mandy McKeesick/The Guardian
Photograph: Tajette O’Halloran/The Guardian
Hassan Elhassan leaves his Oran Park home to drive to his second job at a cafe in Liverpool, Sydney. The Sudanese Australian has lived and worked in Australia for eight years but his parents and siblings arrived a year ago on hastily arranged visitor visas – and their treatment, he says, differs substantially compared with visaholders from other countries.
Photograph: Matthew Abbott/The Guardian
Mourners gather at Sydney’s Town Hall for a vigil for the Palestinians killed in the year since Hamas’ attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.
Photograph: Andrew Quilty/The Guardian
Beyond the Pale Indigenous Corporation in south-east Queensland is helping to improve health and wellbeing of Aboriginal youth through equine therapy.
Photograph: David Kelly/The Guardian
Singer, songwriter and music producer John Butler on Mouat Street in Fremantle, WA.
Photograph: Frances Andrijich/The Guardian
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Emily Graham from Wildlife Victoria’s travelling vet service examines Kylie, a four-month-old eastern grey kangaroo at an animal shelter in Beveridge. The joey was rescued from her dead mother’s pouch after the mother was hit and killed by a car.
Photograph: Douglas Gimesy
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Olympic B-girl Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn poses with Holy Molly, J-attack and Kid Tek at the Victorian dance festival.
Photograph: Nadir Kinani/The Guardian
A man swims with his ponies at the beach in Sumba, Indonesia.
Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian
Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian
April and Amelia Maddison make content for Instagram and OnlyFans and have had their images stolen to make a generative AI model.
Photograph: Paul Harris/The Guardian
Emily Wurramurra, an Indigenous Australian singer and songwriter, tells the tale of escaping a house fire with nothing but the clothes on her back.
Photograph: Remi Chauvin/The Guardian
Photograph: Jamila Filippone/The Guardian
Comedian, writer, actress and director Nina Oyama at Henson Park, Marrickville. Oyama met friends here during the picnic era of the pandemic, when work and the world had otherwise ground to a halt, and describes the oval as her ‘emotional support park’.
Photograph: Isabella Moore
The lord mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, in Redfern.
Photograph: Joel Pratley/The Guardian
Beau Killen (center) with other grand finalists in the junior 8-10 years section wait for their portrait to be taken by the official photograher for Mulletfest in NSW.
Photograph: Simone De Peak/The Guardian
Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian
Dawn Smith, the mother of Cindy Rose Smith, who was 16 years old when she and her 15-year-old cousin Mona Lisa Smith were killed in a motor vehicle accident. Decades on, the family continues to seek justice.
Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian
Photograph: Steve Womersley/The Guardian
Yetman Yabettes players celebrate their win of the senior women’s grand final cricket match between the Yetman Yabettes and Yagaburne in Goondiwindi, Queensland. The number of women playing cricket in the bush has grown by 34% in the last 5 years.
Photograph: Dan Peled/The Guardian
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Photograph: Charlie Kinross/The Guardian
Chef Kylie Kwong takes a Walk With Guardian Australia in Parramatta, NSW.
Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian
Photograph: Matthew Newton/The Guardian
My Linh, who arrived in Australia as a refugee from Vietnam in 1982, never got holidays, sick pay or superannuation for the years she spent sewing clothes at home for the garment industry.
Photograph: Penny Stephens/The Guardian
Australian writer Tim Winton sits for a portrait at a studio on Gadigal Land, Sydney.
Photograph: Adam Ferguson
