The Age photos of the week, August 1, 2026

The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributors at The Age.August 1, 2026 — 11:25am1/15Jacinta Allan’s struggle to head off construction industry corruption allegations that dogged her leadership.Credit:Eddie Jim2/15Tim Rogers is taking YOU AM I back on the road in celebration of Hourly Daily’s 30th anniversary another 24-hour statewide school shutdown.Credit:Justin McManus3/15Leah Filley has lived with pelvic pain for 25 years and felt validated by the Victorian Women’s Pain Inquiry.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS4/15The Salesians are selling Don Bosco Hostel in Brunswick and locals are concerned they are losing a much loved youth service. Local resident Kate Longley with her children Jesse and Henrietta at the centre.Credit:Eddie Jim5/15Proprietors of Royal Arcade store SpellBox and self-proclaimed ‘Witches’ Danae Moon and Jasmine Sun.Credit:Chris Hopkins6/15An emotional Jacinta Allan speaks to the media as she resigns as the Premier of Victoria.Credit:Chris Hopkins7/15Melbourne piano prodigy Charlie Wu, 13, has just returned home after winning one of the world’s top piano prizes for school-aged students, the Grand Piano Competition in Moscow, Russia.Credit:Justin McManus8/15After experiencing burnout, the organisational psychologist Amantha Imber wrote a book about ways to improve energy.Credit:Simon Schluter9/15 Michele O’Neil and Sally McManus are stepping down as heads of the ACTU.Credit:Simon Schluter10/15Environmental journalist Michael Dulaney has written a new book about zoonotic disease.Credit:Jason South11/15Sarah Smith’s Mum died on a waitlist for Government aged care support. She’s joined a new family led alliance , FACES which is calling on the Government to count the older Australians who are still waiting for funding despite already being approved and the ones who die waiting.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS12/15Felicity Chafer and Mark McDonald are alleged victims of group of allegedly disreputable real estate agents from Raine and Horne Port Melbourne. The agents use high-pressure sales tactics to coerce vendors to sell below-market rates and then dispose the properties to related parties, who sell at massive profits.Credit:Jason South13/15Martyn Scrimshaw is the airport chaplain at Melbourne Airport.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui14/15Felicity Nicholson and her husband John Gethin-Jones, who has Alzheimers.Credit:Eddie Jim15/15Ben Carroll has become Victoria’s new premier. It comes after a tearful Jacinta Allan resigned from the Labor leadership. Pictured with new deputy premier Gabrielle Williams.Credit:Jason South