The Age photos of the week 19 September 2021

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Bulldogs supporter Belinda Youl, meanwhile, has had her Altona North house painted in red, white and blue since the 2016 grand final.Credit:Luis Ascui

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Rick Savickas was earning more than $1000 a week before the pandemic struck Victoria. He could survive on JobSeeker when the payment increased to about $1100 a fortnight last year, but when it reduced again to about $720 a fortnight, including rent assistance, he could not keep up with the rent for his Brooklyn home, which was about the same amount.Credit:Jason South

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Sammy J, comedian and host of ABC Melbourne’s breakfast radio show and host of the Sammy J Snack Pack podcast.Credit:Joe Armao

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Pentridge precinct manager Michael Wade, left, and the National Trust’s Victorian CEO Simon Ambrose in the former Pentridge Prison’s A Division. The former Pentridge prison could equal Old Melbourne Gaol for visitor numbers when its doors are thrown open to the public, the National Trust says. Visitors will be able to sleep in converted cells and stroll through the notorious H Division as part of Melbourne’s newest tourist attraction, to be run by the trust.Credit:Justin McManus

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Bailey McInnes suffered three head knocks playing football that have left him with ongoing problems. Credit:Ben Searcy

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John Chellew from the School Refusal Clinic and his child therapy dog Max. The clinic works with children who feel unable to attend school when classes are on. He said when schools were open, about 5 per cent of children felt they could not attend. The longer children were out of school, the more difficult it was to get them to return, he said.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Emma Hall, an associate nurse manager at the The Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre, says she and other health workers were looking towards what was happening in New South Wales for what might be coming, and how to best prepare for it. The number of hospitalisations in NSW, at 1245 on Friday, is about six times higher than in Victoria.Credit:Eddie Jim

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Intensive care nurse Tayla Christofakakis says “The COVID ICU pod is filling up so quickly compared to last year,” Ms Christofakakis says. “We had one patient on Saturday. It’s now Wednesday and we have had eight admitted that are really, really sick.”Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Scientists Prof Colin Pouton and Dr Harry Al-Wassiti in the lab with the development of Australia's first mRNA vaccine at Monash University Parkville campus.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Hairdresser Colin Moxey is concerned when his eponymous hair salon in Melbourne’s Chapel Street shopping precinct reopens to its now-shaggy waitlist of 300 clients, the government will make him work out his own COVID-19 vaccine policy for clients, instead of setting clear rules for all businesses. Credit:Penny Stephens

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Construction workers at a city building site block Lonsdale Street and use it for 'smoko' after being banned from using tearooms due to the COVID-19 restrictions implemented by the Victorian government.Credit:Joe Armao

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A group of volunteers including twins Kevin and Tom Clark, 79, have spent years restoring an old Tait (Red Rattler) train that they hope by December will be operating regular public trips on the Lilydale line from the city on the metro train network.Credit:Jason South

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As Melbourne’s lockdown drags on, tiny galleries are popping up in Brunswick streets. Their pre- and primary-school aged curators, stuck at home, are composing scenes for passers-by to enjoy. Elvie McNicholas, 5, and Marlon McNicholas, 3, with their tiny gallery. Credit:Eddie Jim

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Scarlett Martin with her “Neighbourhood Museum”. About the size of a shoebox, the seascape museum is inspired by the National Gallery of Victoria, a place Scarlett likes to visit when restrictions allow.Credit:Justin McManus

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Afghan Women’s Organisation Victoria president Gulghotai Bezhan. Ms Bezhan and other members of Victoria’s Afghan community have been approached by COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria (CQV) to assist with one of its most challenging operations yet in the pandemic.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Afghan-Australian Neamat Rahimi quarantined at a hotel in Epping, after being evacuated out of Kabul with his wife Fouzia and four-year-old son Mirwais.Credit:Justin McManus

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Hundreds + Thousands (Multi-City): Germination is a series of online workshops running pre-festival from September 23. Dance artists Luke George, from Melbourne, and Daniel Kok from Singapore have devised choreographic and meditative exercises and performances for people and their plant companions.Credit:Luis Ascui

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Former ruckman Lewis Pierce, who retired from the AFL after five games for St Kilda in 2019, knew 30 seconds after his most recent concussion that he couldn’t continue playing. Pierce, 26, had returned to his home club, Mount Eliza, after he was delisted by the Saints and was playing against Sorrento when he was slung to the ground in a dangerous tackle.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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A Victoria Police officer speaks to members of the Jewish community at a synagogue in Ripponlea after an illegal gathering to mark Jewish New Year was raided by police last week.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Filmmaker Moorina Bonini was inspired in part by water for her film, “Gowidja”. Bonini was determined to put Indigenous narratives centre stage and imagined an Indigenous-led future. Her film “undertakes a critical evaluation of the government’s approach to collecting in galleries and museums, also land management and extractive practices that are still undertaken on our Country”.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Recently vaccinated Edbert Limen poses in front of the big screen at Melbourne Town Hall displaying Victoria’s vaccination tally on Thursday. Credit:Jason South

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Osama Jabry receives his COVID-19 vaccination from nurse Sonya El-Abbas, accompanied by his wife Manal Kareen, and children Rokaya and Hussien at Broadmeadows Town Hall vaccination hub.cCredit:Paul Jeffers

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12-year-old Lucas having his first coronavirus vaccination at the Heidelberg Repatriation hospital. Children aged between 12 and 15 years will be able to book a COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine from September 13 following the Morrison Government's decision to implement expert medical advice.Credit:Eddie Jim

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Princes Hill Secondary School staff members (left to right): Jamiel Sabbagh, Jessica Little, Felicity Marlowe, Bernie Dineen and Lou D'Adam have joined a push for mandatory vaccinations for school staff before children resume face-to-face lessons. Credit:Eddie Jim

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ABC TV’s News Breakfast co-host Lisa Millar was subjected to a stream of online abuse even while she was on air, forcing her to quit Twitter.Credit:Justin McManus

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Kylie Kerr with her 13-year-old daughter Lucy at home in Greensborough. On Monday, 12-15 year old children will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccination.Credit:Paul Jeffers

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Rebecca McCrohan was sexually abused while a member of Kenja in the 1980s. “They absolutely ripped lives apart.” Kenja, a communications training group more commonly known as a cult, which has attracted scrutiny with its refusal to join a scheme to help the survivors of sexual abuse. Its late founder, Ken Dyers, has been accused of sexually abusing at least 10 young girls in his care. He died by suicide while on bail facing 22 charges of sexual assault.Credit:Justin McManus

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Sea Change Hospitality boss Tarren Colwell wants direction from the government on whether vaccinations should be required for staff and customers. Credit:Jason South

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Western Bulldogs supporter Eloiza Soluta celebrates her team making the AFL grand final at Whitten Oval on Sunday. Credit:Luis Ascui

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Sam Ludbey-Stynes with children Tiernan and Matisse. Jim Stynes is one of Melbourne’s most famous figures, a pioneer from Ireland and an inexhaustible ruckman who played 244 consecutive games (a record), won the 1991 Brownlow Medal, and later served as president at a time when the club was in desperate financial trouble.Credit:Justin McManus

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