Cabinet minister Simon Crean demands spill, tells media former PM Kevin Rudd must stand, acknowledges current PM Julia Gillard won’t call spill or stand down, and that he doesn’t have the numbers to be leader himself or even force the spill. Either he’s had a breakdown or he knows something or he’s just plain wrong. …

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Yesterday’s announcement that Google are discontinuing Google Reader from July 1 is a disappointment. People ask how I keep up with online content. Simple. Instead of going to hundreds of websites, an rss subscription for each website in Google reader means that everytime new content was posted on each blog, there it was, all on …

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I wrote this week’s pastor’s column for The Border Watch, Mount Gambier’s local newspaper: The recent cancellation of our WIN television news was distressing on a couple of levels. The abrupt and unpublicised manner of the decision’s implementation seems to indicate little more than a shocking contempt for our local community by the WIN network, …

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