Emotional scenes as the Nadesalingam family arrive at Thangool aerodrome to a warm welcome from Biloela locals in June 2022. Priya and Nade with their daughter Tharnicaa are embraced by jubilant friends as they exit the terminal

A thunderstorm passes over Parliament House in Canberra in September 2021

Prime minister Scott Morrison sits alone during voting on the medevac legislation in December 2018 in the last parliamentary sitting of the year. Behind in the polls and facing an election in the new year, at the time Morrison only held the balance of power in the lower house by a slim margin and had to rely on the independents on the crossbench

The Deniliquin Ute Muster in September 2022

An emotional Penny Wong breaks down in Parliament House in November 2017 after the announcement of the outcome of the same-sex marriage survey

Bron Powell, project manager for the Central Murray Darling Basin for Ozfish (a non-government organisation), stands in the Macquarie Marshes, NSW, in February 2023

My last portrait of former prime minister Bob Hawke, taken in December 2014

Swimmers gather on Yarralumla beach on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra for the fifth annual Winter Solstice nude charity swim in June 2021

Then prime minister Tony Abbott passes by an unfortunately named shop at Kippax in Canberra in June 2015

Never smile at a crocodile ... then opposition leader Bill Shorten handles a baby croc during a visit to Maningrida, 500km east of Darwin, in May 2016

Murray Raggett from Papunya at the Indigenous-owned and run health service Purple House in Alice Springs in October 2019

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson warms her toes after playing in the politicians’ State of Origin rugby league contest between Queensland and New South Wales on the Senate Oval of Parliament House in June 2017

Children bathe in water from a shallow well on South Tarawa, Kiribati, in May 2013. Storm surges and seawater are contaminating water sources on the 33 atolls and reef islands that make up this nation that straddles the equator

Prime minister-elect Anthony Albanese celebrates his victory on 21 May 2022 with Penny Wong, partner Jodie Haydon and son Nathan Albanese at Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL club

Parkes Elvis festival celebrates 30 years in January 2023 with the theme ‘Blue Hawaii’. One of the headline acts of the festival, Elvis tribute artist Victor Trevino Jr, performs to a sell-out audience

Former prime ministers Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott at the unveiling of Julia’s official portrait in Parliament House in October 2018

Snow blankets the ground outside Cooma on the day of the Eden-Monaro byelection in July 2020

The opposition taunt then prime minister Tony Abbott with the headline from the Herald Sun newspaper – ‘Bowser bandit’ – during question time in October 2014

A State Emergency Service swift water rescue boat attends to Brian Russell’s car after rescuing him from his flooded vehicle along Blacktown Road near Richmond, west of Sydney, in July 2022

Darren Nation, the captain of the Horsley Park Rural Fire Service crew, watches his team extinguish a blaze in January 2020 during the black summer bushfires

Barnaby Joyce before question time in the House of Representatives in February 2021

Sheep stuck in the outfall channel at Lake Cawndilla near Menindee, NSW, in January 2019

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson wears a burqa during question time in the Senate chamber of Parliament House in August 2017

Murray McClure, who has lived at Trevallyn station on the Darling River near Tilpa for most of his life, is pictured here in the local pub in February 2018

The night sky over Uluru after the first full day of the climbing ban in October 2019