# Photos of the week, September 3, 2020 Source URL: https://www.theage.com.au/national/photos-of-the-week-september-3-2020-20200830-h1qdo6.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed Date: 20200905T0156 Photos of the week, September 3, 2020 Skip to sections navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer # Photos of the week, September 3, 2020 38 Images ## A week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review photographers. Follow us on Twitter @photosSMH Follow us on Instagram @sydneymorningherald Like our photos? Selected images available from [www.fairfaxphotos.com][1] September 5, 2020 — 11.56am 1/38 Lunch with Jess Scully, Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney, at La Paula Cafe in Fairfield. She spent her first seven years in this south-western suburb, where her Chilean grandparents ran a tailor shop upstairs and her parents had a fashion shop downstairs.Credit:Wolter Peeters 2/38 Two men clean a bus stop shelter in Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW. The bus stops are cleaned twice a week. Credit:Kate Geraghty 3/38 Bondi Beach gym workout during last weekend's warm temperatures. Sydney’s warming weather tests social distancing.Credit:Steven Siewert 4/38 Scenes from Bondi Beach on the last weekend of winter. Credit:Steven Siewert 5/38 Two elderly men going for a walk in Circular Quay. NSW's transport agency recently gave the go-ahead for two shortlisted consortia – Plenary Group and CQC Partners – to develop early designs for the Circular Quay renewal.Credit:Kate Geraghty 6/38 Bill Hamburger great-great-grandson of William Tipple Smith visits his relative's grave in Rookwood Cemetery during the unveiling of a new headstone and plaque. William Tipple Smith died in 1852 and discovered the first payable gold in Australia. Credit:Kate Geraghty 7/38 Experts fear suicides will increase during the coronavirus pandemic, and say awareness campaigns are not enough. Aleta Wassell has taken a course in suicide prevention to help her fellow students. After doing gatekeeper training through her local council, the 18-year-old knows the signs to watch for and what to do if she sees them in someone. Credit:Nick Moir 8/38 Clovelly Beach on a warm day this week. Rising temperatures point to an elevated chance of a La Niña weather pattern setting in.Credit:Brook Mitchell 9/38 A swimmer jumps into the shallow waters at Clovelly Beach as temperatures push 30 degrees in Sydney.Credit:Brook Mitchell 10/38 Swimmers would be lapping Lavender Bay under a proposal to create temporary netted swimming areas in Sydney Harbour while the iconic North Sydney Olympic Pool is closed for redevelopment.Credit:Nick Moir 11/38 The London 1875 in Paddington is among seven pubs proposed for heritage listing by the council. Credit:Rhett Wyman 12/38 NSW Transport minister Andrew Constance at a rollout of one of the new Waratah inner city trains. For passengers, about the only noticeable difference of the 24 new Waratah B-sets from the earlier versions are the orange-coloured exterior of the driver cabins and tweaks to lighting in the carriages and their electronic information displays.Credit:Nick Moir 13/38 Debut author Rawah Arja's book the 'The F Team' is about a group of four Lebanese boys who participate in an inter-school football tournament to try and save their Western Sydney school from being shut down for good. Credit:Louise Kennerley 14/38 Claire Hudson, who runs a beauty parlor The Lash Studio, has been hit by Covid-19 downturn as people have been less willing to leave their homes and have less need to look beautiful. "Our trade is down about 35 per cent," says Ms Hudson. Credit:Louise Kennerley 15/38 School teacher Emily McLachlan performs star jumps with a group of Year 9 Chatswood High School students at O.H Reid Memorial Park in West Chatswood. Emily has invented an exercise program that is recorded on an app 'Race Around Australia'.Credit:Kate Geraghty 16/38 A record number of Australian universities have been ranked among the world's top 200. UTS has moved up to joint 160th in the annual Times Higher Education university rankings.Credit:Janie Barrett 17/38 Treasurer Josh Frydenberg during a press conference on National Accounts, at Parliament House in Canberra. David Crowe writes "Frydenberg cannot escape his share of the responsibility for the recession on his watch. Asked about his plans for recovery, he named infrastructure spending, cuts to red tape and workplace relations reform – none of which are fast enough or powerful enough to lift the economy out of its slump this year.".Credit:Alex Ellinghausen 18/38 Swimmers brave a cool morning on the first day of Spring in Mahon Pool, Maroubra.Credit:Janie Barrett 19/38 Nicolette Preketes-Tardiani was supposed to graduate from her media degree in May. Since the pandemic struck, more than 17,000 students have missed out on their graduations. With no end to the bans on big crowds in sight, the University of Sydney will hold a mass online ceremonyCredit:Janie Barrett 20/38 Sydney FC head coach Steve Corica holding the Championship trophy and defender Rhyan Grant holds the Premier Plate at Circular Quay. Sydney FC won the Huyundai A-League Championship in the final against Melbourne City and also won the Premiers Plate. Credit:Kate Geraghty 21/38 Almost cloudless dawn at Avalon Beach on the last day of winter.Credit:Nick Moir 22/38 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children suffer the highest reported rates of otitis media (middle ear infection) in the world, with studies showing they are five times more likely to be diagnosed than non-Indigenous children. Audiologist Arveen Kaur tests Jackson Wellington hearing at the Waminda Women's Health Centre in Nowra.Credit:Rhett Wyman 23/38 Minister for Health Greg Hunt, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians and Minister for Youth and Sport Richard Colbeck and Acting Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly address the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen 24/38 Independent MP Bob Katter and Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce during a doorstop interview to address questions on an inquiry into foreign interference at Australian universities, at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen 25/38 Beach goers flock to Coogee beach on a warm Sunday as winter nears an end. Despite many people being on the beaches, NSW Police did not have to issue any infringement notices for breaching social distancing rules.Credit:Edwina Pickles 26/38 People enjoying Bondi Beach on a hot winter Sunday. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian praised NSW residents for their behaviour over the warm weekend, which saw Coogee and Bondi beaches full of swimmers. Credit:Edwina Pickles 27/38 People enjoying the sun at the Barangaroo precinct. Rezoning proposals at Central will open the way for towers higher than 300 metres near Circular Quay, Town Hall and Barangaroo, significantly above the cap of 235 metres at present.Credit:Dean Sewell 28/38 Ashely Wilderink, owner of Brothers Ben cafe in Petersham. Spending at cafes in NSW has bounced back and is now higher than before COVID.Credit:Edwina Pickles 29/38 Brent Clark and Giselle Oscuro outside St James church, Glebe. They had booked to walk the Camino de Santiago in 2020 but had to cancel due to coronavirus. Instead, they created the Camino de Sydney, a 29 day, 600km walk across Sydney.Credit:Louise Kennerley 30/38 Local Aboriginal Elders and relatives of firefighters Nita Lyons, Auntie Norma Ingram and Narelle Lyons, who work at Redfern Fire station which is set to close.Credit:Nick Moir 31/38 Jack de Belin leaves Wollongong court after hearing his trial for sexual assault is set to go ahead in November. NSW District Court Judge Andrew Haesler said the applications that pushed the trial date back by almost nine months were to do with alleged "irregularity in the preparations for the trial".Credit:Kate Geraghty 32/38 House fire at Rowallen Street in Castle Hill.Credit:Renee Nowytarger 33/38 Sunbathers at Bondi stretched out on the sand and grassed areas with the spring weather this week under the watchful gaze of police, lifeguards, rangers and council ambassadors.Credit:Steven Siewert 34/38 Dr Kerryn Phelps at the intersection of Flinders and Oxford Streets, Darlinghurst, is arguing against Clover Moore's suggestion that all streets in Sydney Council area should be limited to 40km per hour. Motorists could be forced to slow down to 40km/h when driving throughout the City of Sydney, as the NSW government works with local councils to reduce speed limits in areas with high numbers of pedestrians and cyclists.Credit:Janie Barrett 35/38 HSC student Christelle Joyce Salimbangon has felt the stress of the year under Covid-19 restrictions but has found some respite in the fact that she has received some early University offers. Universities have sent out a record number of early offers this year and applications for some admission schemes have tripled as year 12 students rush to shore up their future amid the uncertainty caused by COVID-19.Credit:Dean Sewell 36/38 Smoke from hazard reduction work in Northern Sydney drifts across Sydney Harbour. The NSW Rural Fire Service prepares for the coming season. These include renewing or clearing fire breaks, implementing COVID-19 safety protocols and training 8000 fresh volunteers.Credit:Dean Sewell 37/38 Clouds rolling in over Perisher.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen 38/38 The Berejiklian government plans to create a new koala reserve to protect the marsupial population in the Georges River region. South-west Sydney is home to some of the healthiest koala colonies in NSW.Sue Gay, a local resident and wildlife campaigner, said she was "very pleased" about plans to create a koala reserve that will eventually become a national park.Credit:Louise Kennerley [1]: http://consumer.fairfaxsyndication.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2ITPN4UZPJU6