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ABC finance journalist Alan Kohler to retire after three decades as Jim Chalmers says he will be ‘really missed’


The 74-year-old says he is leaving to spend more time with his family, including his six grandchildren

Financial journalist Alan Kohler, a familiar face on the ABC’s 7pm news bulletin, will retire in December after three decades as the public broadcaster’s highly-respected financial guru.

Now 74, Kohler has been presenting finance, complete with idiosyncratic graphs, on the ABC for almost a quarter of a century, signing off each evening since 2002 with the catchphrase: “And that’s finance”.

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Publish date : 2026-09-30 03:28:00

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