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By Lincoln Feast (Reuters) - Australia's twice world champion Tyler Wright crushed ratings leader Carissa Moore of Hawaii to win the Rip Curl Pro Bell...

By Lincoln Feast (Reuters) - Australia's twice world champion Tyler Wright crushed ratings leader Carissa Moore of Hawaii to win the Rip Curl Pro Bell...

Our community blogger and author shares her nostalgic childhood experiences with easter time and sheds some light on the history of the easter chocolate phenomenon.

In our culture, Easter celebrates the benignity of the ordinary. It is a time for getting together with family, for going away to bush or beach, and in southern states a time of mild weather ideal for watching big football matches and other sport. The important question raised now by Easter is whether the meanings of Australian Easter, and indeed those available to our secular society, have the depth needed to handle our present predicaments. By Andrew Hamilton

Romanian heritage ascribing to the faith you will hear them saying Hristos a înviat - Adevărat a înviat. This is just one example of common traditions across Australia’s ethnic groups celebrating Orthodox Easter, which include members of the Russian, Eritrean, Armenian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Ethiopian communities. The Epitaphio (the symbolic funeral bier of Christ) during a Good Friday at Greek Orthodox Church of St. Athanasios at Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, April, 2015 AAP Key points The strong community appeal of Orthodox Easter is a common denominator across diverse commu...