The Age photos of the week, April 5, 2025

Readers can’t understand why the two major parties have so little to say about the climate crisis in this election.

Three families whose children died at privately run emergency departments overseen by financially stricken Healthscope have spoken out about their ordeals.

Max Caldwell, who turned 100 on Sunday, is one of only two surviving soldiers from the 2/14th Battalion.

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition at the NGV has drawn huge numbers of people during its four-month run.

And the warm weather is set to return later in the week.

Donors to the Royal Children’s Hospital say they are committed to ensuring programs in the cancer centre continue to be funded.

Only a few years ago, parents didn’t feel comfortable walking into this inner-north school. Now some stay for the whole day.

The changes to the RCH’s children’s cancer centre have brought censure from Age readers.

Geoff Freeman and Graeme Bales have been playing for the same baseball team since 1968.

Victoria’s trial for putting monitoring devices on underage offenders is due to start this month, but where the teens will be sent is among the unanswered questions.

Victoria has distributed more than 20,000 free packs of sanitary products in the first stage of its trial to provide free pads and tampons in public places.

Victoria has distributed more than 20,000 free packs of sanitary products in the first stage of its trial to provide free pads and tampons in public places.

The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age

A towering lemon-scented eucalypt outside Sandringham Hospital is at the centre of a passionate dispute as it faces the axe.

Readers bemoan the opposition’s performance during the federal election.

This weekend’s Wimmera Steampunk festival is set to be the biggest yet, and that’s a big deal for host town Dimboola, which came close to being destroyed by a bushfire in January.

A 71-year-old woman was in custody on Friday.

A 71-year-old woman was in custody on Friday.

Grant Johns, 39, has vowed to contest allegations against him.

The Children’s Cancer Centre will lose as many as 10 full-time equivalent roles, including dedicated mental health workers, in a move staff have described as devastating.

A former Melbourne teacher is accused of indecently assaulting and abusing a teenage girl in the late 1990s while a teacher at an inner-north school.

With the screens glowing red and Donald Trump making mayhem, our much-respected columnist says it’s the scariest time of his career.

The woman was stabbed more than 100 times by her son and his schoolmate as part of a delusional plan to form a child army and restore Christian values to Australia.

Danielle and Stephen Iskander left Northern Hospital without their first child, who died after unreasonable delays in performing an emergency caesarean.

Retired cop Rod Phillips still has questions about the Mr Cruel theory. “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a big call. How can they have a suspect when they haven’t even got here yet?’”

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Readers react to the global volatility as a result of Trump’s own.

The car enthusiast didn’t like cemeteries or the idea of cremation, so he was slipped into the Southern Ocean off Portland.

Alan Hamilton was laid to rest not in the ground but in the ocean, 120km off Portsea, Victoria, last month. Supplied by Candour Funerals/Filmed and edited by Michael J Lutman