Photos of the week, February 11th, 2021
Photos of the week, February 11th, 2021
A week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial Review photographers.
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the NSW government tabled the long-awaited report of the Bergin inquiry into Sydney’s second casino licence, which is held by the James Packer-backed Crown Resorts. Crown opened its new $2.2 billion complex in Barangaroo in late December, but without the gaming rooms that underpinned the project.Credit:Nick Moir
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CSL is confident it can make an updated version of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to cover any virus variants that might arise – putting the ball in the medical regulator’s court for a quick approval. It comes as the Australian pharma giant prepares to begin the process of bottling the first doses of the life-saving vaccine in the coming days.Credit:Jason South
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The findings of the Bergin report into Sydney’s second casino licence are, without doubt, damning for Crown Resorts and for the man who is identified as exercising the real power at Crown, controlling shareholder James Packer.
Former NSW Supreme Court judge Patricia Bergin says in no uncertain terms that Crown is not a “suitable person” to hold its casino licence at Barangaroo – but she does hold out the possibility that it may be in the future. “If Crown is to survive this turmoil and convert itself into a company that can be regarded as a suitable person and achieve the same for the Licensee, there is little doubt that it could achieve a fresh start and emerge a very much stronger and better organisation,” she says.Credit:Louie Douvis
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Moses Obeid arrives at the Supreme Court, Sydney. The Crown case is that sometime between September 1, 2007 and late May 2008, Eddie Obeid, 77, and his son Moses, 51, became part of a conspiracy with former mining minister Ian Macdonald, 71. Mr Macdonald is alleged to have provided inside information to the Obeids about a coal exploration licence which was eventually granted over the Obeids’ rural property in the Bylong valley.Credit:Steven Siewert
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Serena Williams at the Australian Open 2021.Day 3Credit:Eddie Jim
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Toni Collette outside Downing Centre Court. Credit:Brook Mitchell
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US import Casper Ware, who plays for the Sydney Kings. When COVID-19 struck last March, Kings star Casper Ware returned to Los Angeles as the city hit crisis point. Now he’s back to take care of unfinished business.Credit:James Brickwood
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Former Labor minister Ian Macdonald “was acting in the interests of the people of NSW” and not the Obeid family when he opened up areas of the state for coal exploration, his barrister has told the NSW Supreme Court.Credit:Steven Siewert
9/29
Anyone in NSW who has been in Victoria in the last two weeks will have to follow Victoria’s lockdown rules for the next five days, NSW Health has announced.
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Travellers from Victoria to NSW in past fortnight to stay at home for five days
A NSW Health statement issued after Victoria’s announcement on Friday confirmed NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard will make an order requiring people who have returned from Victoria in the past fortnight to remain in their home or place of residence for the five-day period.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro says a minimum spending requirement of $1 million determined which councils received funding from a $177 million bushfire relief fund last year, despite almost half of all projects funded falling under that amount. Mr Barilaro on Monday told a parliamentary inquiry that the Blue Mountains – the 12th worst bushfire-affected local government area in the country – missed out on funding because its projects fell outside criteria of the fast-tracked fund.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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A reptile park is calling for residents of Sydney and surrounds to catch funnel web spiders found in their homes to be milked for their precious antivenom amid a donation shortage.
The Australian Reptile Park at Somersby, on the Central Coast, has experienced a lower number of spider donations for its antivenom program this summer.Credit:Peter Rae
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Workers collect samples at a mobile COVID-19 testing station at West Botany St Arncliffe.Credit:James Alcock
13/29
Sydney commuters will be forced to play “spot the difference” after the City of Sydney council decided to rip out bus shelters, public toilets, kiosks and billboards – and replace them with items that look eerily similar at a total cost of about $100 million. Street furniture in areas such as Paddington, Zetland, Glebe and the CBD will be removed and replaced by new assets from billboard company QMS Media as early as July under plans submitted to the City of Sydney council for approval.Credit:Steven Siewert
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Members of the Sydney Art Quartet play in a performance which includes scent, as well as sound.Credit:Janie Barrett
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More than three decades before David Hua joined SBS’s leadership team, taking over as director of audio and language content last December, he found the multicultural broadcaster to be a daily source of annoyance. “As a small child, I was very active and I just wanted to play with my parents,” says the veteran media executive, who spent 15 years in various roles at the ABC. “But at 3 o’clock every afternoon, they would stop to listen to the Vietnamese news on SBS Radio, which was a real frustration to me.”Credit:James Brickwood
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Life in lockdown for mum-of-three Courtney Lardner last year was totally disruptive. Her partner lost his full-time job, her one-year-old was sent home from daycare and she was left supervising the education of daughter Imogen, then in year 5, and son Jason, in year 4, who also has a learning disability.
It was made all the more challenging by the family’s lack of digital devices: they attempted to borrow a laptop from their school near Campbelltown, in south-western Sydney, but everything was quickly snapped up. “We basically lived off what we had. We were using phones to do the reading side of things. Phones, the iPad [and] I paid the money to get a decent printer,” Ms Lardner said.Credit:Edwina Pickles
17/29
Australian property prices could rise further when lending laws are relaxed, experts say.
Credit:Peter Rae
18/29
Independent MP for Warringah Zali Stegall with the Cremorne Orpheum general manager Alex Temesvari in Cinema 4. With box office down almost 70 per cent last year, they have relied on JobKeeper and rent relief to stay afloat. But when JobKeeper is cut back, independent cinemas will be needing federal government support.Credit:James Brickwood
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William Zeglis , Zaac Margin , Scott Baldwin , Sam Margin , Elliot Margin
The Rubens at Selinas at Coogee Bay Hotel.
Credit:Nick Moir
20/29
Sydney Street Artist and Muralist Sid Tapia in front of his large scale commissioned work of former Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons near Erskinville Train Station.Credit:James Alcock
21/29
A day later, the mural of Resilience NSW Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons, by street artist, Sid Tapia, at Erskineville Railway Station was vandalized.Credit:Janie Barrett
22/29
‘I am confused’: Sam Burgess to appeal after found guilty of intimidating father-in-law.Credit:Rhett Wyman
23/29
Students from around NSW are part of a new advisory committee to the Education Department, and presented some of their ideas at NSW Parliament in Sydney.Credit:Janie Barrett
24/29
A major swathe of Sydney, from the foreshore of the Botanic Gardens to the southern end of Hyde Park, has been placed under heritage protection in a move that puts significant future developments under federal watch. Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley said she wanted to prioritise Indigenous cultural history in declaring the 100 hectare area of land, bordered by Macquarie and Elizabeth Streets, and a section of Bridge Street to the west, and Woolloomooloo Bay to the east, a National Heritage List precinct.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Qing Fong Lion Dance Team perform for members of the public at The Concourse, Chatswood in the lead up to the Chinese New Year. Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Volunteers, Peter Lawrence and Ron Ray, at the newly restored Fortress and Gun plotting rooms at North Head where two huge naval guns were used to defend the entrance to Sydney Harbour particularly during WWII. It’s part of a Harbour Trust tour at North Head with tunnels and defensive positions dotted all over North Head.Credit:Nick Moir
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Professor Pedram Khosronejad inspects classical Islamic artefacts with Lisa Havilah in the basement of the Powerhouse Museum. The first annual exhibition program curated under the direction of the Powerhouse Museum’s chief executive Lisa Havilah will dive deeply into its collection around Persian arts, microcars, and ceramics. “This is all about our collection, engaging with the collection, presenting our collection in new ways and there is a whole range of material that has never been seen before,” Havilah said.Credit:James Alcock
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Sydney actor Dan Wyllie found not guilty of domestic violence against wife.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Sunrise at Tamarama Beach.Credit:Brook Mitchell
