The earliest Easter since 2016 resulted in people pulling forward their long weekend spending into March.

Chocolate brands hatch new eggs in hunt for your Easter dollar

As chocolatiers go all-out to reinvent Easter treats in the face of surging cacao costs,one south-east Queensland company has vowed to keep its prices steady.

  • Nick Dent

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Humble’s hot cross bun comes with salted butter ice-cream.

The Good Food Guide to Sydney’s softest and hottest cross buns (but not as you know them)

The Easter market is increasingly competitive among Sydney bakeries. Expect more coconut,gelato and yuzu in your bun this year.

  • Erina Starkey
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Enough with the hot cross puns

It might be time to shelve them.

Year 12 Santa Sabina College students Lucia Juarez,left,Lucy Gee,centre,and Rochelle Dias are part of a group running their own op shop.

Cost of fast fashion is too high

Clothing is responsible for 10 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions – more than cement or steel,and way more than aviation – not to mention a mountain of landfill. If we are to reach net zero emissions,we must all take our cue from these girls and recycle what’s in our wardrobes.

Brain scans for future AFL players are on the league’s agenda.

Why boxing has a better record on concussions than the footy codes

The football codes,on the other hand,continue to deny scientific findings and to promote full contact versions of their sports for young children.

 Tim Tszyu

Boxing has a blind spot when it comes to concussions

The recent Tim Tszyu-Sebastian Fundora fight,much hyped by the media,developed into a bloodbath,serving only to prove that professional boxing on which so many promoters,agents and other hangers-on sponge livings,is a decadent activity.

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NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb.

Three key reasons why the Steve Jackson hiring matters

It takes a special kind of incompetence to drag your government into another “jobs for the boys” scandal.

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Pope Francis bestows the “Urbi et Orbi” (To the city and to the world) blessing from the central lodge of the St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Sunday.

Pope soldiers on through Easter Sunday after skipping Good Friday ‘to preserve health’

Pope Francis overcame concerns about his health to preside over Easter Sunday Mass,leading some 30,000 people in a flower-decked St Peter’s Square.

  • Nicole Winfield
The Queensland government is reviewing drug driving laws and enforcement.

Police crack down on speeding,drink driving amid Easter road safety blitz

During the first two days of the long weekend,Queensland police detected more than 100 drink drivers,150 drug drivers and issued almost 1000 speeding tickets.

  • Courtney Kruk
Chestnut farmer Beverley Carruthers,83,with her ripe crop of nuts at Nutwood Farm in Mount Irvine

‘This is my first good crop in 50 years’:cockatoos the key to Beverley’s success

Fruit and nut production is on the rise after 2023’s damaging storms.

  • Angus Dalton