The Sydney Morning Herald Photos of the week September 2 2021

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Annie Wylie normally swims laps at Clovelly Beach, but living in Glebe means the ocean lies outside her five-kilometre radius imposed during lockdown. Rather than giving up on the water, Ms Wylie has relocated her exercise regime to Elizabeth Bay which lies just inside her bubble.Credit:Janie Barrett

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A person walks across a street wearing a face shield and mask in Rockdale a suburb in the Bayside LGA during the NSW statewide COVID-19 lockdown. The national plan proposes easier travel and fewer lockdowns at the 70 per cent vaccination rate but holds out the prospect of bigger changes at 80 per cent.Credit:Kate Geraghty

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Catherine Bugmy from Wilcannia is currently in isolation at the Warrawong on the Darling. Following her positive test, she received a place in a cabin outside town, so she wouldn’t have to isolate at home with other people. But because she’s tested positive for COVID-19 she can’t use the communal washing facilities, so is forced to do her washing in the Darling River.Credit:Rhett Wyman

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Curator-Manager of the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, David Laughlin at the Spring Walk area of the Botanical Gardens. To mark the first day of spring, the garden’s annual display on the spring walk buzzed with bees and insects. For those lucky enough to live close enough to jog or walk through the garden, the walk is flowering with azaleas, wisteria, ranunculus, some dianthus, pansies and spirea.Credit:Louise Kennerley

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Gina Bortolin-Papa, an Italian-Australian grandmother, has been running her children's clothing and gift shop La Gardenia in Leichhardt for 40 years. While she has barely sold a thing during lockdown, only keeping the doors open so she can sign documents as a JP. It’s a neat place that is packed with toys, dolls, first communion and christening clothes, baby wear, religious icons and Italian CDs. There are rows of children’s fancy dress outfits for sale including Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, Spider-Man, Batman but, just now, no Elsa; the enduring popularity of Frozen means the character’s costume always sells out quickly.Credit:Louise Kennerley

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Coogee in Randwick LGA has been identified as a Pfizer vaccine priority. Randwick residents have given priority access to Pfizer jabs in the hotspot of Bayside amid concerns that 9000 doses could go to waste after people failed to turn up for appointments. Randwick, which borders Bayside, has also seen a growing number of cases from an illegal party on August 14.Credit:Nick Moir

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Deputy CEO of the Committee for Sydney think tank, Ehssan Veiszadeh was the former head of media and director of strategy for Gladys Berejiklian. He's been critical of some aspects of the govt's COVID response since leaving government. Credit:Louie Douvis

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Tess Robens with Sam from Rio Bar in Summer Hill's shopping strip which is full of small businesses. Analysis of spending patterns by consultancy firm Accenture and credit bureau illion shows purchases made at small traders in Sydney’s inner west, which includes Summer Hill, had plunged by 35 per cent by mid-August compared with pre-lockdown levels. The spending slump at small retailers in the city’s west and south-west was even deeper.Credit:Steven Siewert

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Jeanette Forrest (left) plays hopscotch with her granddaughter Neriyah Oul aged 5 years old infront of their apartment in Brighton-Le-Sands a suburb in the Bayside LGA during the NSW statewide COVID-19 lockdown. Brighton-Le-Sands NSW. 30th August, 2021. Photo: Kate Geraghty Credit:Kate Geraghty

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Marrickville daily life during Sydney's lockdown. Australians are being promised a shift within months to easier travel rules that allow home quarantine for those who cross state borders or return to the country, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison steps up the case for relaxing lockdowns despite concerns from state leaders.Credit:Louise Kennerley

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Irfan Yus, year 8 student from Canterbury Boys High School outside his Punchbowl home. He is coping fine with home schooling and would like to be vaccinated to be safe.Credit:Louise Kennerley

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Bangladeshi interpreter, Golam Mowla, is helping the community to get vaccinated in the Saints Grammar School Gymnasium, in Belmore, during Sydney's lockdown.Credit:Janie Barrett

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Story on cocktail delivery in Sydney. Double Deuce Lounge owners Sebastian "Cosmo" Soto and Charlie Lehmann are providing cocktails for pick-up from Charlie's Chippendale garage. Co-owners of Double Deuce Lounge and Ramblin' Rascal Tavern â€" started selling cocktails via direct message on Instagram two weeks ago. Punters use their phone to order a Stinger (described by Soto as a "booze-heavy, minty after-dinner drink") and collect the tincture from Lehmann's Chippendale garage on Friday and Saturday afternoons.Credit:Edwina Pickles

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Mandarin farmer Mark Watkins of Wisemans Ferry picks produce for delivery. They have been struggling to get their stock to market since the implementation of Covid-19 restrictions and lockdowns. Seventh-generation grower Mark Watkins has never seen a larger crop at his orchard on the northern outskirts Sydney, not far from the banks of the Hawkesbury River. But instead of reaping the rewards of a bumper harvest, he has been forced to take the chainsaw to hundreds of trees full of plump, ripe mandarins at Watkins Family Farm.Credit:Wolter Peeters

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Summer Hill shopping strip which is full of small businesses. Credit:Steven Siewert

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Waverley CemeteryCredit:Nick Moir

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Henry Dale-Pope and coach Stuart Casey at Queens Park. Story details: Story is about parents paying for personal training, sport coaching and tutoring for their kids during lockdown. Henry Dale-Pope, 10, is a promising soccer player who is currently doing five private sessions a week to compensate for not being able to play matches with his NPL team. He is paying for some of it with his birthday money and his grandfather is also helping. 26th August 2021. Photo: Edwina Pickles / SHCredit:Edwina Pickles

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Janna DeVylder and her children Alannah, Gus, Eli and Evelyn having a picnic lunch from Happyfield in their front yard. During Sydney lockdown.Credit:Louise Kennerley

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Michaela Wessels, Founder/CEO Style Arcade. Credit:Louie Douvis

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Ema Akl collects her daughter from childcare in Chester Hill. She is an essential worker, working in a supermarket and has had her vaccination. The Bankstown- Canterbury LGA is one of Sydney's hotspots where residents are only allowed to leave their home for an hour of exercise a day. Credit:Janie Barrett

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Amina Yousef-Shalalawon with her Daughters, Antoinette, Lucia, and Celine, in their backyard in Sydney. Amina is reluctant to send Antoinette back to school. Sydney students have been homeschooling since second term due to the spread of Covid-19 in the community.Credit:Janie Barrett

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The Member for Hughes, Craig Kelly,tries to put his mask on, after speaking during Private Members' business, i, the House of Representatives, at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

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Police investigators working with blue tent and police tape at the crime scene at the intersection on William streets, Blacktown, where an 18-year-old man was stabbed there over night and died on way to hospital. Credit:Louise Kennerley

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Melae Saadeh, 77, enjoying the winter sun in the front yard of his punchbowl home. He is unable to see his four adult children as they do not live nearby. Credit:Louise Kennerley

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Year 12 student Emily Grant studies for the HSC exams, which have been delayed to November. “Hearing that HSC is in November, that is the tipping point. I just wanted to get it over and done with. I think at this point they are just prolonging our suffering.”Credit:Rhett Wyman

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Rocks exposed by yesterday's storms at North Curl Curl. Yesterday's storm stripped North Curl Curl beach of sand and uncovered rocks that residents had etched after previous storm events dating back to 1949. Credit:James Brickwood

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Summer Hill shopping strip which is full of small businesses. Credit:Steven Siewert

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After viewing the sunrise, a group of swimmers dive into Mahon Pool at Maroubra, on the last day of winter. The Bureau of Meteorology’s long-range outlook for spring is for above-average rainfall for most of southern and eastern Australia. The extra cloud will probably make the nights less chilly but keep a lid on some daytime temperatures.Credit:Janie Barrett

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NSW Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant during the COVID-19 vaccination update .Credit:Kate Geraghty

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People enjoying weekend lockdown exercise on the Bronte to Bondi walk. Credit:Edwina Pickles

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Natalie Johnson, Founder/CEO Nueno, a start-up that digitises assets for fashion brands. Credit:Louie Douvis

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Xavier Gray was looking forward to his vaccination jab and had it booked in on Thursday night, but his appointment was cancelled. Parents who had made appointments for their 12- to 15-year-old children to get the Pfizer vaccine were outraged when the bookings were cancelled late Friday, only hours after Premier Gladys Berejiklian promised to honour their appointments.Credit:Brook Mitchell

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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

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People wait for COVID-19 tests at a walk-in clinic in Lakemba.Credit:Brook Mitchell

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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian during the COVID-19 vaccination update. The number of people admitted to hospital with COVID-19 has jumped 42 per cent in one week, with infected patients spread across 35 of the state’s hospitals and more than 1400 healthcare workers now in isolation.Credit:Kate Geraghty

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RFS set up a base camp for all the Police, NSW Health and emergency services coming to assist in the Covid-19 outbreak in Wilcannia.Credit:Nick Moir

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Four residents at Uniting Edinglassie Lodge residential aged care home in Penrith have tested positive for COVID-19. Uniting NSW/ACT said an asymptomatic contract cleaner first tested positive on August 25 as part of routine 72-hour testing.Credit:Wolter Peeters

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Gladys Berejiklian arrives at this morning Covid press conference Photo Nick Moir 3 aug 2021Credit:Nick Moir

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Psychologist Judy Christian and her mother, Barbara Olliff, live a short walk away from each other in Castle Hill, in Sydney’s north-west. Despite being within a 5km radius, the pair have not seen each other since the city’s lockdown began on June 26. Rules permitting outdoor recreation with another person do not apply to people who live in aged care homes, like Ms Olliff.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer

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