The more important legal development with the Centro case was the ruling othat all shareholder class actions are managed investment schemes (MIS), and must be registered as such.
Articles by Alan Kohler 
Kohler: Turnbull’s four steps to annihilation
Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘Four Point Plan To Pay Off Labor’s Debt’ was a tired, dismal effort that will sink without trace, because there’s hardly anything in it, and no-one cares anyway because they’re focused on whether he’ll survive to the weekend.
Kohler: Rudd’s dividing and conquering, not leading, on ETS and Telstra
Kevin Rudd and his ministers seem to think they are all just playing a political computer game, in which the aim is to kill as many bad guys as possible. But broadband and emissions trading are both nation-changing issues.
Three into one: the Telstra triple business challenge
Telstra’s priority, wisely, is to ensure it keeps all of its 10 million households and businesses as customers at the point of transition to the wholesale NBN, and that it doesn’t take place in a competitive free-for-all.
Stern Hu: The man who knew too much
Those expecting a backlash against China over its arrest of four Rio Tinto employees are still waiting, writes Alan Kohler.
Kohler: Mobilising the retail army
It seems women can deny themselves shoes and clothes for only so long; as soon as it’s safe to go back into the stores, they’re there, plastic drawn.
Dear John,
The trouble that newspapers now find themselves in is due entirely to a colossal failure of management and leadership over two decades, says former newspaper journo Alan Kohler.
The superpowers are burning
The world’s two most powerful nations are heading in the opposite direction to that which the G8 Italia 2009 communiqué drafters will write, says Alan Kohler.
Sean Howard’s dawn raid sent Lend Lease packing
At 6am on Wednesday, Sean Howard arrived at the Melbourne retirement village he owns with Trevor Kennedy … Alan Kohler takes up the tale.
If only newspapers were an iPhone app
The incredible success of iPhone apps has demonstrated the biggest tragedy of newspapers: their failure to find a viable micropayments system, writes Alan Kohler.
Kohler: let’s not get carried away here
While all the good economic news lately has been wonderful, there’s always a “but…” attached, writes Alan Kohler.
The 2009 Budget mirage
The centrepiece of the Budget is a debt-funded increase in the old age pension, writes Alan Kohler from Business Spectator.
Budget backdrop is chaos and crisis
The usual Treasury imperative to restrain desperate politicians, still as great as ever, is tempered by a need to be careful not to depress everyone.
Eddington’s ANZ appointment a corporate governance turning point
Sir Rod Eddington’s appointment as chairman of ANZ is shaping up as something of a turning point for corporate governance in Australia, writes Alan Kohler.
Kohler: Fix Rio or resign
The incoming chairman of Rio Tinto, Jan du Plessis, has two important tasks: to renegotiate the deal with Chinalco and to bring about change within Rio itself, writes Alan Kohler.
The BrisConnections bolt from the blue
A resolution of the BrisConnections mess is inevitable, despite Nicholas Bolton’s opportunistic $4.5 million vote sell-off.
Quality journalism will bloom online
In my view the internet provides the opportunity for the rebirth of this kind of journalism, not its death.
