Chris Masters
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85 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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He came from fairly humble circumstances.
He was the son of a South East Queensland farmer, had a very small, impoverished block really.
His mother was a special person.
She insisted that the children go to private schools, which must have been a stretch for them.
And so Alan had this kind of cross-cultural background where on the one hand he aligned himself with the working poor
But on the other hand, he also sort of seemed comfortable with the elites, which had something to do with that Toowoomba Grammar School upbringing, I think.
He always was thought of as something of a boy genius, had youthful looks, and he became tertiary educated.
You know, he got a teacher's qualification.
He taught at Ironside Primary.
He then went on to teach at Brisbane Grammar, and that's where a lot of the problems began.
Jones seemed to be unduly interested in the young men.
You heard stories about allegations of grooming, of Jones spending undue time with students, of Jones after athletics massaging students, you know, having them shower, et cetera, in front of them, that sort of thing.
He wouldn't get away with it today.
You know, you couldn't have a master in the car with a student until two o'clock in the morning, which is something that happened with Alan quite a bit.
In many respects, he was invaluable to the school because he was prepared to coach all of the sporting teams and do the choir and drama and work late at night while other teachers with families were going home.
So he became invaluable and I think that became a bit of a trick over the years wherever he worked, be it in politics, in broadcasting or as an educator.
He made himself kind of invaluable and in a way untouchable.
Yeah, that was a really shocking experience for me.
I'm still a bit shaken by it, actually, because I'm very proud of the ABC and I always thought the ABC was the place to go that would do the stories that others wouldn't do.
I'd been through the Queensland police corruption experience, you know, where I was sued.
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