The eight top-read stories on The Australian newspaper’s website all deal with Australian politics and seven of them seem to revolve around the leadership of Prime Minister Julia Gillard. The only ray of relief is that one of the opposition members may decamp allowing the government to pad its paper-thin majority. Call put PM’s old …

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News on the decision of Mark Driscoll’s Mars Hill church to move from a ‘one church – many campuses’ model to a ‘one network church – many churches’ model. Apparently the decision was made by executive leadership and eldership, not by the congregations themselves. Last month we decided to put an end to the word …

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The Presbyterian Church of Victoria made an extensive submission to the Victorian Government about its proposed adoption of a human rights charter. The Melbourne tabloid Herald Sun picked up the report’s support for parental corporal punishment and ran with it. Here’s their editorial comment ‘A question of punishment’. TO punish or not to punish – …

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