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Female Crimson Banded, very common in shallow water/reef

Yes to all……, Flathead change colour to suit their environment, a Dusky on clean sand will be light coloured. Look up the identifying features of each specie, there is easy to identify differences, plus the legal sizes and bag limits, they vary considerably.

There was one identified a week or so ago, they are commonly called a “Red Big Eye” quite a common catch.

That’s a “Red Bigeye” distinguished from the other closely related species by what I believe to be small, light yellow spots on the dorsal fin, which appear to be present in that one.
edit……they are reasonably common in summer, and almost pests in warmer water.

Sweep, very common.

Yep, definitely a Tailor, OK eating when fresh, not too good for freezing, or if left in the fridge for a while.

Frigate, Mac Tuna have "spots" on the belly near the pectoral  fin, and grow much larger.

Yep, that's a Shovelnose, OK eating (just the tail bit) way better than the Banjo.

Sweep, very common catch, the big ones are OK to eat.

Barracoota.

Latchet by the looks, very similar to a Gurnard, but has prominent horn like things above the mouth, and not as good eating

Sure looks like a Jewfish, but none of the photos are really good enough to be 100%, but it's my guess.

Pretty common find, they usually get broken up, but it's normal to find them like that, shell shedding I have been told.