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Alan Kohler is one of Australia’s most experienced commentators and journalists. Alan is the founder of Eureka Report, Australia’s most successful investment newsletter, and Business Spectator, a 24-hour free business news and commentary website. He also hosts Inside Business, a half-hour Sunday programme on the ABC, is the finance presenter on the ABC News - and producer of the nightly graph (or two).
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Economy
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A potential clean slate for coal mining
Private equity investors are looking to coal mines for their next big win. If they can turnaround chronic mismanagement they'll set an example for other industries.
The bears, Bernanke and the great bond bubble
The bond market is understandably jumpy about what Ben Bernanke says tonight but the Fed is unlikely to abandon its control of the 'biggest bond bubble' in history.
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Markets
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MARKETS SPECTATOR: Tinkler's lesson in timing
Farallon Capital Management is eating up more of Nathan Tinker's Whitehaven stake, giving the former coal king a masterclass in deal-making.
SCOREBOARD: House music
Housing starts in the US grew for May, adding to the sector's momentum, while commodities took their ease as equities rose.
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Politics
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Labor men have sabotaged Labor's first woman
Kevin Rudd's camp has employed crude methods to promote the worthy cause of a post-union party – inadvertently adding an ironic twist to Labor's misogyny concerns.
Labor will live on despite the disasters
Labor is due for a comeuppance at the election but Julia Gillard's political failings are just one of the party's crimes to come out of this wayward parliament.
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Technology
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BYOD 2.0: A more secure workplace
The next evolution of BYOD shifts focus from device management to application management and ensures that the enterprise footprint on a personal device is limited to enterprise data and applications and nothing more.
The key to unlocking wearable computing
Better battery technology lies at the heart of taking wearable devices mainstream and a little push from the likes of Apple and Samsung won't hurt either.
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Climate
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The religious climate change response
With the Pope concerned about global warming and a Queensland church installing solar panels in the shape of the cross, there's hope that religious communities will soon be pushing for action on climate change.
Australian solar market bang on target
Each year the regulator for small-scale renewable energy certificates has used forecasters to estimate the likely solar uptake. After years of undershooting, this year they've been pretty close to the mark.
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Video
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Australia's education opportunity in China
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CEOs outline changing views on corporate spending and profits, their economic expectations and political dissatisfaction, including advice for Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.
TECHNOLOGY SPECTATOR: The audacious app trying to take over TV
UK-based Zeebox wants to be the intermediary for all social media-television interactions. It will not only have to lure viewers, but the networks themselves.
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