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Easter

March 2024

Get ready for more expensive Easter eggs.

Why chocolate prices are up and could double by next Easter

RaboResearch expects global cocoa prices to settle around $US5900 a tonne, which is 124 per cent above the average price over the past five years. 

  • Ronald Mizen
The modern annual Easter Passion play at Oberammergau in Germany.

Disgrace turns into love on the cross

Easter offers divine love beyond shame. God, it turns out, is far less judgmental than we are.

  • Michael P Jensen
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar announces his resignation in Dublin.

Ireland’s ‘exhausted’ prime minister announces shock resignation

Leo Varadkar, whose Fine Gael party has struggled in the polls, said he would step down as leader of the country, citing “personal and political reasons.”

  • Megan Specia

The best chocolate to sweeten your Easter

No need to hunt for the perfect chocolate gift – we’ve got you covered.

  • Necia Wilden
The offending snap. One marker of public disaffection is in the scale of irreverence that has greeted the princess’s blunder.

Princess Catherine’s photo fiasco highlights royal transparency dilemma

The imbroglio raises questions about how far the sanitised version of the family can be trusted, resurrecting demons that haunt its relationship with the media.

  • William Wallis
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The three-bedroom house at 26 Ginahgulla Road in Sydney’s Bellevue Hill sold for $1.6 million over reserve for $11,601,000.

‘Buyers are flighty at the moment’: Caution softens clearance rate

Bidders are competing for high-quality homes, but a lack of bids for lower-priced properties is pulling the national clearance rate lower.

  • Michael Bleby

December 2023

CEO of Linfox Mark Mazurek says the first quarter of calendar 2024 is likely to bring a much tougher economy.

One last ‘blowout’ at Christmas then hard times on way

The CEO of Linfox, the transport giant owned by Rich Lister Lindsay Fox, is bracing for a downturn in the economy in February and March.

  • Simon Evans

May 2023

Bubs founder and CEO Kristy Carr and former executive chairman Dennis Lin with boxes of baby formula bound for the US last year.

Inside the Bubs board fallout

Bubs co-founder Kristy Carr and former executive chairman Dennis Lin were at an event in China in early April. Days later a board spill erupted. They were out, but tensions had been simmering for some time.

  • Carrie LaFrenz
Super Retail Group, headed by Anthony Heraghty, says inflationary pressure on wages and electricity prices are pushing up his cost of doing business.

Supercheap tumbles on costs confession

Super Retail Group shares fell 7 per cent on Thursday, after it said its cost of doing business will rise in the second half.

  • Carrie LaFrenz
Super Retail Group, headed by Anthony Heraghty, says inflationary pressure on wages and electricity prices are pushing up his cost of doing business.

Supercheap owner battles higher wages and costs

Super Retail Group says inflationary pressures on wages, rent and energy expenses will push its cost of doing business up in the second half.

  • Carrie LaFrenz

April 2023

Qantas domestic passengers will soon be able to board flights with heavier carry-on luggage.

Melbourne Airport tips extended wait for pre-pandemic airfares

More than 2.71 million passengers came through Tullamarine in March – around 88 per cent of its pre-pandemic levels and slightly higher than January.

  • Lucas Baird
Global EY chief executive Carmine Di Sibio at of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January.

EY risks paralysis after split failure

Leaders of the major firm’s US arm torpedoed a planned split deal over the Easter weekend.

  • Michael O’Dwyer and Stephen Foley
Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News role ‘honorific’, argue lawyers

The company’s attorneys have sought to insulate members of the Murdoch family and to keep them from testifying live before a jury.

  • Randall Chase
Holiday parks will be 70 per cent full this Easter.

Holiday park bookings up 40 per cent over Easter: BDO

Rising demand for budget holidays has lifted bookings and revenue forecasts across the holiday park sector this Easter, BDO figures show.

  • Larry Schlesinger
Easter is the most solemn festival for Christians.

The Easter truths that connect us all

Yunupingu’s life and example show how it is possible to reconcile very different worlds.

  • Frank Brennan
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A tasting kit of To’ak mini bars comes with a guide to the production process.

Why To’ak is proud to call itself the world’s most expensive chocolate

It’s Easter, so thoughts turn to the traditional sweet snack – and not just any kind. This is the sort you can feel virtuous about eating.

  • Jill Dupleix
Pidapipo gelato-filled hot cross buns.

Why do humble? Here’s where to find high-end Easter feasting

From Good Friday fish to chocolate eggs, cover the traditional culinary bases of the season in style.

  • Necia Wilden
Monthly building approvals for new apartments are lower than they have been for a decade

Why builders aren’t building enough homes

Growing numbers of Australians can’t find or afford homes to rent or to buy. Surging immigration and falling new supply is worsening a housing crisis that few politicians want to discuss.

  • Jennifer Hewett

March 2023

BHP argued the union’s interpretation on what counted as a request, adopted by the court, was “inherently unworkable”.

Bosses must ask staff before rostering to work public holidays: court

Days before the Easter holidays, the Federal Court has held that employers cannot automatically roster workers on public holidays, and must give them the option.

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  • David Marin-Guzman
Premier Retail CEO Richard Murray and chairman Solomon Lew.

Premier Investments eyes overseas markets with jewel Peter Alexander

The retailer rewarded shareholders with total dividends for the first half up more than 50 per cent to 70¢ a share.

  • Carrie LaFrenz

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