It's the end of another year, so time to look back at some of the iconic photos featured in EYE FOR AUSTRALIA in 2025.
December's gift (above) is an image of the man who once maintained Melbourne's prominent Nylex Clock. The site featuring the clock has long since been deserted after Nylex closed in 2004. The sign crowns the 14-storey silos situated between Melbourne's Yarra River and the MCG, and famously appears in singer Paul Kelly's track 'Leaps and Bounds'.
IA series Eye for Australia looks at the nation through the lens of award-winning photojournalist Bill McAuley.
We hope you enjoy our pictorial wrap-up for the year that was.
Eye for Australia: 2025
November
Gough Whitlam, the day after the infamous sacking of the Whitlam Government (1975)
October
Australian boxing world champion, Lionel Rose (1988)
September
Late American musician Frank Zappa was a clever, complex, "one-of-a-kind" artist (1973)
August
The boy who went bush: Matthew Naughton, "wearing" his rabbit trap (1978)
July
Cleo Laine jazzes up the Sydney Opera House (Circa, 1975)
June
Dame Edna Everage: The cultural ambassador who made them blush (2008)
May
Australian actor Geoffrey Rush 'shines' on (Circa, 2000)
April
A digger walks 'to remember them' (Circa, 2000)
March
Colleen McCullough's 'Thorn Birds' still wears the crown (Circa, 2000)
February
David Williamson — 'Don's Party' was just the beginning (1979)
January
Black Monday: When money talked in Melbourne... and said 'goodbye' (1987)
Bill McAuley's 40-plus-year news career began in 1969 as a cadet photographer at 'The Age' in Melbourne.
Bill has several published collections, including 'Portraits of the Soul: A lifetime of images with Bill McAuley'. To see more from Bill, click HERE.
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