Matthew Abbott

Surfers enter the water at Currumbin Beach on the Gold Coast as the town prepares to host the Commonwealth Games.

The beginning of the first major demonstration, “Welcome to Hell”, at the G20 in Hamburg, Germany. Protesters in the city continued to riot over the next three days during the summit.

Nick and Joanna Atkins sit by the campfire with their dog Lin after a day of driving the Gibb River-Kalumburu Road. Western Australia, June 2018.

Shortly after a press conference where Senators Mitch Fifield and Michaelia Cash joined Senator Mathias Cormann in asking the Prime Minister to call a party room meeting to resolve the leadership crisis. Three crucial cabinet ministers withdrew their support for the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Jacinda Ardern, 37, in the foyer of the Grand Millennium Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand. Ardern became the youngest leader of New Zealand’s Labour party, after Andrew Little stepped down less than two months before the country’s general election.

Stephanie Coombes, 29, watches over a mob of cattle moving into a different part of the yard at Bulka Station. Steph says when it comes to working with cattle, “boring is good”. Calm is good.

In a quiet moment, cousins and siblings braid each others’ hair in one of the girls’ rooms at their new home in Cranbourne, a suburb on the outskirts of Melbourne. Their parents prepare food downstairs for the upcoming house blessing ceremony.

The next generation of activists lead the survival day rally from The Block in Redfern, Sydney.

Skipper and diver Mark Taffener slowly surfaces after inspecting the bottom of a Southern bluefin tuna cage owned by the Stehr group. Near Port Lincoln, South Australia.

“Rain On My Parade”. At the annual Poddy Dodgers Festival in the Queensland town of Croydon, people gathered to walk the main street with umbrellas, raincoats and homemade raindrops.