The Sydney Morning Herald Photos of the week August 19 2021

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Lakemba resident, 26-year-old Sumiya Mahmood, says she is feeling depressed about the new curfew and exercise restrictions because she cannot even go outside to meet up with friends. Community leaders in south-west and western Sydney fear for people’s mental health, women at risk and disaffected youth, as they warn a police curfew imposed unevenly and without social support will further entrench “us and them” attitudes and inequality across the city. The announcement of further limitations for 12 local government areas on Friday - a 9pm to 5am curfew and one-hour per day cap on outdoor exercise - hit hard for disadvantaged and ethnically diverse communities that are already bearing the brunt of both COVID-19 cases and lockdown restrictions.Credit:Louise Kennerley

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Police patrol Bondi beach as tighter lockdown measures were introduced, including a 5km rule.Credit:Steven Siewert

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Assyrian translator Philimon Darmo, 83, from Camden, has been a translator for 20 plus years and has been working around to the clock at his home to translate public health resources for Multicultural NSW about COVID-19 and ongoing restrictions into Assyrian. One of the biggest challenges for Mr Darmo is finding Assyrian words that convey the same meaning as they do in English. Drawing on his multiple dictionaries and the help of Google, he often finds a phrase that works.Credit:James Brickwood

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Dat Loi Fish Shop on Beamish Street, Campsie. The one-month extension to lockdown is expected to cost the state economy close to $1.5 billion each week. The NSW government is also setting aside about $1 billion for JobSaver payments for struggling businesses through September. Facemasks will be mandatory outdoors at all times other than exercising for all of Sydney from Monday, as well as the regions until August 28, while a 9pm - 5am curfew will only be applied to local government areas of concern. People in these areas will also only be allowed to exercise outside their homes for one hour a day.Credit:Louise Kennerley

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Su Myat, who came to Australia from Burma on a Woman at Risk visa, with her daughter, Mee Mee, in their small home, that floods when it rains. They have to share a bed, and Su, who has had back surgery and struggles to walk any distances feels trapped because she can't even take her daughter to play at a park. Crowded housing is at its worst in Sydney’s west and south-west - the parts of the city hit hardest by COVID-19 - and advocates say the pandemic demonstrates the region’s dire need for more affordable housing.Credit:Janie Barrett

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Najla Sbei came to Australia as a refugee from Syria, and now works in the community services sector, in Liverpool. A new study finds COVID-19 has triggered particularly bad memories of war and conflict for many refugees, particularly those in areas in severe lockdown where police and military may be patrolling.Credit:Janie Barrett

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Brighton-Le-Sands beach.Credit:Louise Kennerley

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Tasker Park in Canterbury - in the City of Canterbury-Bankstown council. Council recently removed the hoops from multiple basketball courts around the LGA as part of their COVID-19 lockdown response. Fortunately the hoops remain here at Tasker Park. A gentleman has donated a new net to the court as the old one had worn away. Credit: James Brickwood

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Luke Winder with Bresse chickens at his Tathra Place Free Range farm in NSW. Winder has been forced to freeze thousands of ducks while restaurants are in lockdown.Credit:Louise Kennerley

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The sun breaks through a heavy fog in Dubbo.Credit:Kate Geraghty

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Members of the Australian Olympic Team arrive at Sydney Domestic Airport after quarantining in the Northern Territory following the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan. Some of Australia’s biggest Olympic stars returned home to very different welcomes, ranging from joyous to stark, at airports across the country amid lockdowns and COVID-19 restrictions.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer

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Pilot, Kahlie Jensen, who was made redundant from Virgin due to the Covid-19 pandemic is volunteering with the charity, Little Wings - transporting children to hospital. Rebecca Vaclavik, with her daughter Victoria, are flown to Westmead, after Victoria suffered burns from a scalding cup of tea. Credit:Janie Barrett

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Dudley Shillingsworth, 63, at his padlocked front gate to keep COVID-19 out of his home in Clara Hart Village outside Enngonia. COVID-19 cases have been rising in Western NSW amid state wide lockdown. The Budgiti elder is extremely worried about what could happen if COVID-19 finds its way into his tiny community in Enngonia, about 90 kilometres north of Bourke in western NSW. It’s home to a handful of families from the Budjiti, Murawarri and Kunja groups who live in run-down, often crowded homes across a few red dirt blocks.Credit:Kate Geraghty

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Drive through Covid testing in central Blacktown.Credit:Nick Moir

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Mr Bennetts dives deep below the waves off Bronte Beach to photograph a world of starfish, sea urchins, blue gropers and seaweed ruffled by currents. He has long been a surfer, but credits his mother with igniting an interest in photography. “I found a box of my late mother’s photographs when I was 13, and I remember there were a lot of ocean scenes, seaweed and shells,” he said. Mr Bennetts, executive chef of The Fishbowl Group, also freedives, which he said requires a focus on breathing and sense of calm to successfully descend beneath the ocean. “It’s such a good pastime,” he said. “There’s only so many times you can sit on your phone scrolling.”Credit:Edwina Pickles

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For Indigenous 17-year-old Kaidyn Wright, getting vaccinated against COVID-19 was a no-brainer.“I just think it’s important we get vaccinated, so we don’t spread the disease to our elderly and to my younger brothers, who have weaker immune systems,” Kaidyn said. The boys were vaccinated as part of a drive aimed at 12 to 18-year-olds run by the Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation (TAC), now that First Nations people over 12 can get the jab. The organisation said it had vaccinated around 160 Aboriginal teenagers on Thursday, and Kaidyn said the turn-out had already made him feel safer in his community.Credit:Nick Moir

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Long lines around the block in Brighton-Le-Sands as under 39's registered for Pfizer vaccines wait to receive their dose at the Novotel Hotel.Credit:James Brickwood

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Two big-time Australian basketball players are finding hoops for the backyard of a nine-year-old boy from Sydney’s south-west, who has had to play the sport with his imagination since police requested the hoops from his local park be removed during lockdown. The Herald met Omar Kahil, an only child who lives in Greenacre, earlier this week at his local park following reports the council had removed its basketball hoops in an attempt to limit people gathering during the outbreak. His story caught the attention of two Australian NBA championship players: Andrew Bogut, who spent most of his career in the United States, and Matthew Dellavedova, who now plays for Melbourne United and won bronze with the Boomers in Tokyo. Bogut, who played for the Milwaukee Bucks and Golden State Warriors, told the Herald he and Dellavedova, who played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, were joining forces to contact the Kahil family after reading of Omar’s plight. “I get we’re in a pandemic but a young child shooting the ball in a park, to have that happen where the hoop is taken away, it’s just ridiculous,” said Bogut, who most recently held commentary duties for the Tokyo Olympics. “We can’t condone this for kids, it’s just not right.”Credit:James Brickwood

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Lily McMahon is not happy with remote learning -when she ran a student poll and put it on Google Classroom, she was banned for 24hours. Credit:Rhett Wyman

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Matt Stanowski and Laura Fitzpatrick toast marshmallows with their two children Audrey, 7, and Michael, 5, in the firepit at their home in Glenbrook. Matt built the firepit last lockdown and they are now using it regulary with their kids during this lockdown.Credit:Wolter Peeters

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Stock Contractor Dakota Brandenburg at the Mount Isa Mines Rodeo. Dakota, 25, is one of very few female rodeo stock contractors in the world. She comes from family with a rich rodeo history - her father Darren "Brandy" Brandenburg is a former Australian Bull Riding Champion and All Round Champion cowboy while her mother Bridget is also an Australian champion in All Round Cowgirl and Barrel Racing. The Brandenburgs are one of Australia's leading stock contractors, breeding and supplying bulls for Professional Bull Riding events across New South Wales, the Northern Territory and Queensland, including the Mount Isa Mines Rodeo, the largest rodeo in the Southern Hemisphere. Based at the family's 800-hectare property near Nebo in Central Queensland, Dakota started hauling bulls ages 13, the start of a career which saw her awarded the Australian PBR Stock Contractor of the Year in 2017 as a 21-year-old. Established in 1959, the Mount Isa Rodeo is the richest in the southern hemisphere and attracts contestants from all parts of the world. Credit:Dan Peled /Getty

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Former Prime Minister Paul Keating in his Potts Point office, Sydney.Credit:Louie Douvis

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Roslyn Cronin was diagnosed with breast cancer but it was detected early. A group of health professionals is warning that women in NSW are at risk of a rise in cancer deaths with all routine breast screening to be suspended across the state from Thursday because of the extended lockdown.Credit:Dean Sewell

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Registered nurse Terissa Angel gives Marina McHughes, 39, from Brewarrina her first shot of a COVID-19 vaccination at the Ochre Medical Centre in Brewarrina. Although there are not yet any cases in Brewarrina, more than 760 kilometres from Sydney in north-western NSW, people have tested positive in the neighbouring towns of Walgett and Bourke. Credit:Kate Geraghty

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Cherry Blossoms in bloom at the Auburn Botanical Gardens as the annual Cherry Blossom Festival, set to begin this weekend, is cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions for the second year running.Credit:Brook Mitchell

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Caitlin and Liam Coyne play on the new outdoor play equipment that their parents bought when they heard that Blacktown Council was closing all the playgrounds during Sydney's lockdown restrictions. Credit:Janie Barrett

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Sayed Hussainizada an Australian Hazara, Afghani in his family restaurant Afghan Royal in Campbeltown and is a founder and president of the Afghan Fajar Association. Hussainizada arrived in Australia in 1999 as a refugee from Afghanistan. His daughter in law arrived in Sydney last night from Kabul after having to upgrade her flight to business class to get out on Saturday. Much of his family remain in the country capital Kabul, which over the weekend was taken by the Taliban. Credit:James Brickwood

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Living with covid - the Chapman family from Penrith have built a climbing wall in their back shed which they have used regularly during lockdown. Credit:Wolter Peeters

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Australian American inventor Saul Griffith, co-founder of multiple companies, including Otherlab, Makani Power, and Instructables. He's recently published a book Electrify: An Optimists Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future and informally advises the US on climate policy. Credit:James Brickwood

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Huge crowds of people wait at the Sydney Olympic Park vaccination hub.Credit:Brook Mitchell

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Latisha Carr-McEwan with her children Craig McKellar, 4, and Tashayla Eulo, 9, as they have Covid-19 tests at the Dubbo West walk-in clinic on Howard Avenue in Dubbo. They are getting tested after the children were at sports carnival where a person has tested positive.Credit:Kate Geraghty

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Former Prime Minister John Howard in his office.Credit:Louie Douvis

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Ballet teacher Mel Coady runs an online class while her daughters Ella, 15, and Indi, 19, dance along at their studio in Hurlstone Park. Police have been called to the premises by passerbys assuming normal classes were continuing against lockdown laws.Credit:Brook Mitchell

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NSW Police patrol Bondi Beach keeping the COVID-19 restrictions in place. Most beachgoers were ambivalent as news filtered out that restrictions on travel and outdoor activity would be tightened, limiting people’s movement for shopping and exercise to within their local government area or five kilometres from home.Credit:Steven Siewert

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Guy Morgan signed a commercial lease and started a gallery on June 1. He's not eligible for a business grant or JobSaver because he doesn't have a previous year's turnover to compare to.Credit:Rhett Wyman

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Police speak to a man who is not wearing a mask at Merrylands Road, Merrylands.Credit:Louise Kennerley

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Australian surfboard shaper and designer Hayden Cox. Credit:James Brickwood

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