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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.

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 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.

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
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Silhouetted against a cloudy sky, people work to install a 11 metre high cross ahead of Easter at the top of Otley Chevin Hill, Britain.

After Jesus died on the cross, Christianity triumphed

After the first Easter, faith became the most enduring legacy of classical antiquity.

  • Barney Zwartz
Vatican ushers carry away the Pope Francis’ chair prior to the start of the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) at the Colosseum on Good Friday, in Rome.

Pope skips Good Friday event to preserve health ahead of Easter, Vatican says

His last-minute decision to stay home this year recalled the Good Friday that St John Paul II famously watched from the Apostolic Palace just before he died in 2005.

  • Nicole Winfield, Andrew Medichini and Aritz Parra
King Charles will attend a scaled-down Easter Sunday celebration.

King praises ‘hand of friendship in time of need’ in Easter message

Charles missed a traditional service, but recorded his first public address since his daughter-in-law, Catherine, revealed she had been diagnosed with cancer.

  • Michael Holden
The scene of the deadly bus crash in South Africa.

Girl, 8, sole survivor as 45 killed after bus plunges down ravine in South Africa

The passenger bus was transporting Easter worshippers from Botswana, a landlocked country in Southern Africa, to Moria, a town in Limpopo.

  • Gerald Imray

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