Australia’s best photos of the month – April 2024

Women’s wrestling in Ballarat, Olympic breakdancers, sunflowers and a viral lawnmower man: here is Guardian Australia’s selection of some of the month’s best images

Main image: Australian-Papua New Guinean singer Ngaiire talks about life and family in La Perouse on 17 April. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

  • Pro wrestler Erika Reid aka “The Dreamtime Voodoo Witch” holds aloft her winner’s belt after defeating Lizzy Evo in the Oceania pro wrestler women’s championship in Selkirk Stadium in Ballarat on 12 April.
    Woman hold belt up up in air with lights shining on her

  • Actor Hugo Weaving takes a break from rehearsals for the play The President, in which he co-stars with Irish actor Olwen Fouéré, at the Sydney Theatre Company on 9 April.
    Man sit on pier staring into the distance

  • Third-generation broom maker and owner/operator of the Tumut broom factory, Andrew Wortes, on 17 April.
    Man holding a broom in front of a brick wall and door, with the sign 'Tumut Broom Factory'

  • A resident navigating debris and a burst water main at Coalcliff on Sydney’s outskirts on 6 April.
    Man navigating through debris and a burst water main

  • Lara Ristic’s centralian carpet python ‘Pretzel’ won first place amid ‘intense’ competition at the Sydney Royal Show’s frog and reptile competition on 1 April.
    Woman holding snake

  • Still standing: the band Jebediah has released its first album in 13 years.
    Four men walking past a house

  • An aerial view of the Kalbar sunflower farm in south-east Queensland’s scenic rim region on 15 April.
    An aerial view of sunflowers

  • Lawnmower man Nathan Stafford, who has amassed a huge international social media audience for his ASMR videos, mows the lawn of a social housing block for free in Glebe.
    Man with lawnmower in front of brick building

  • An unexplained phenomenon: the Australian obsession for putting stuff in trees. The tea tree near Broken Hill.
    Tree with tea cups hanging from it

  • Sydney University score a try against the Warringah Rats in the women’s final during the aqua rugby festival at Darling Harbour on 13 April.
    Woman dives into water, while others cheer

  • A boy enjoying late-night acai ice cream at the Caffeine Hit cafe in Old Guildford, Sydney.
    Boy eating purple ice cream

  • Breakdancing Olympian Bgirl Raygun, aka Rachael Gunn, poses with Ausbreaking members on 13 April.
    Breakdancers waving lights

  • Horse archery competitor Kimberley Robertson with her horse Chiko at her home in Hirstglen, Queensland on 9 April.
    Woman with horse

  • Luse Kinivuwai is campaigning for better signage on ocean beaches after her 20-year-old son Jona drowned at a beach on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria.
    Hands hold a photo of young man sitting in front of mountains

  • Martin Paul repairs and restores violins, violas, cellos and their bows in in his West Melbourne workshop on 24 April.
    man restoring a violins in a workshop

  • Private Mali Djarrbal at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Veterans and Services Association ceremony at the Australian War Memorial on 25 April.
    Headshot of man in army uniform and hat

  • Thousands of people called for an end to violence against women at rallies in cities around Australia, including at King George Square in Brisbane, on April 28.
    Women holding signs

  • Members of the Bondi Board riders club hold a paddle out to honour and remember victims of the Bondi Junction attack at Bondi Beach on 23 April.
    Aerial of people on surfboards in a circle in the sea

  • Lilla Harvey and Jake Mangakahia in a rehearsal of Carmen at the Sydney Opera House on 9 April.
    Woman in red dress faces man in suit held in the air by a group of other men

  • Umpire Nick Foot restarts the fourth quarter in pouring rain during an AFL game between the Hawthorn Hawks and the Geelong Cats at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 1 April.
    Footballer in rain with crown in the background

  • Terence Steinberg lighting flares upon his arrival in Port Douglas. He set the world record for solo rowing 5,000 miles across the entire Pacific Ocean, from Hawaii to Australia, in 126 days.
    Man holding flare in boat

  • Lisa Dillon lives in one of the apartments in an Victorian government-run affordable housing complex at Dunlop Avenue, Ascot Vale, that is plagued with construction issues.
    Woman on couch
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