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Colombian Santiago Vergara, who ran the Melbourne marathon on stilts, pictured here training by the Yarra River.Credit:Penny Stephens

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Tamara Natt and her wife Aurelia St Clair enjoy the health benefits of kissing.Credit:Simon Schluter

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A local family from Hoppys Town camp in Alice Springs, Issaha Forbes (Western Arrente) with wife Louise and daughter Tahlaiyah, wearing a new dress to attend the NAIDOC cabaret.Credit:Justin McManus

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Hawa Hussein and Hawa Warsame say the government’s decision to relocate them and knock down their beloved tower feels as if a rug has been pulled out from underneath them.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Susan Davies, a former independent MP who helped Steve Bracks form minority government in 1999.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Martin Clark with his partner Catherine Pitre and their children Olivia, 7, and Elliot, 4, at their rental home in Glen Iris.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui

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Sister Veronique Karam holding the reliquary of St Carlo Acutis with students at Antonine College, a Maronite Catholic school in Pascoe Vale South, attended a mass and offered prayers with a relic of English-born Italian boy St Carlo Acutis, who died age 15 in 2006 and was canonised in 2025 by Pope Leo XIV.Credit:Simon Schluter

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Shane Robertson is seeking compensation from Barwon Health after he lost vision in his eye following a cataract surgery in September 2025.Credit:Jason South

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Eliud Kipchoge, winner and record breaker of the men’s Melbourne Marathon, crosses the finish line at the MCG. in MelbourneCredit:Luis Enrique Ascui

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Eltham Cemetery general manager Julia Drew and chairperson Fred Harrington OAM. They are unhappy with social media users disrupting mourners to make content showcasing the cemetery’s wisteria.Credit:Joe Armao

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Good Food’s young chef of the year, Kimberly Tang at Ca Com.Credit:Eddie Jim

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Future Suburbs Symposium co-convener and architect Delia Teschendorff.Credit:Justin McManus

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Rob Lymer, who has end-stage kidney disease, has been cheering up fellow patients, visitors and staff while he undergoes dialysis at Barwon Health renal services dialysis centre by drawing cartoons that nurses hang up on the clinic walls. Pictured with renal nurse Lucy Stevens.Credit:Jason South

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Food writer and cook Brendan Pang with his Sichuan peppercorns of choice at the Great Asia Food Store.Credit:Justin McManus

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New Western Bulldogs recruit Zak Butters.Credit:Jason South

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Zara Garcia, Freya Morris, Skye Coonerty from the Westgate Imperials at Recwest Community sports facility, Braybrook. Their 16-year-old girls basketball team has just been told they can’t play this season as they don’t have a court available.Credit:Joe Armao

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Elise O’Neill is a victim survivor who runs a new advocacy group Held Against Her.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui

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Heidi Everett has been homeless for the past two years. In and out of transitional housing, when she stays in the CBD she doesn’t sleep as she says it is safer to stay awake so she wanders the streets all night.Credit:Chris Hopkins

The Age photos of the week, October 17, 2026