Chris Masters
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first heard Aug 2026
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I understand that he's been arrested on various charges of indecent assault.
I certainly have some knowledge of an inquiry that's been going on for some time.
You know, the police came and interviewed me some time back and, of course, there were witnesses from the book that I wrote, Jonestown,
that was published back in 2006.
And because I'm still in contact with them, I've heard that they've also been giving statements to the police.
And in fact, one of them said to me last week, they thought that an arrest was imminent.
Of course, we're talking about allegations.
Nothing has yet been proved.
But, you know, there's been speculation about Joan's abuse of power and predatory behaviour that go back well before I wrote that book 20 years ago.
Yeah, my interest began in the early 2000s.
I'd been reporting a lot on
police corruption and I was quite surprised when I came to recognise that Jones had some power in law enforcement when he engaged in kind of a long-running combat with the reformist police commissioner Peter Ryan.
He was brought in from the UK because there were lots of concerns about institutional corruption in the New South Wales Police Force and Jones seemed to have a lot of allies that were
anti-Peter Ryan and anti-the reform process.
And I wondered about that and I worried about that.
And I went and saw Alan Jones and we had a bit of a discussion.
He didn't want to do an interview with me, but it was all very polite.
But essentially I came to the view that if my job was confronting abuse of power and I was seeing it in my own industry, then...
At Four Corners in those days, you take a deep breath and the story you least want to do is the one you probably should do.
I wouldn't have thought that when I began that in about 2002, I'd still be talking about it over 20 years later.
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