Chris Masters
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85 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Chris Masters’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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for something like 13 years.
And I thought that the ABC was absolutely fearless.
It didn't turn out to be the case.
My sense was that they decided that they were going to kill it by saying that it was just unpublishable, that the lawyer said that, you know, I couldn't back it up.
But that wasn't the case.
I kept...
providing their lawyers with the evidence that proved that what I'd written was defensible.
In the end, they just gave up and said, sorry, we're not going to go ahead with this.
And as it turned out, I went to a commercial publisher, Allen and Unwin, and they published the book.
Certainly he had friends in high places.
Yes, a lot of influence was brought to bear.
I think it was more that people feared him than respected him.
The politicians would go on his show, and if he didn't play ball, he'd beat them up.
The people who kowtowed to Jones, and honestly, they told me this up close plenty of times, you know, I'm not doing it, Chris, because I respect him.
I'm doing it because I fear him.
He can go on air and belt me up every day till the cows come home, and that's pretty much what he would do.
you know, were supposed to stay in our lane and most of them pretty much stick to the lane, but not Alan.
Alan pretty much saw himself as a prime minister in front of the microphone.
He would tell prime ministers and premiers what to do unhesitantly all the time.
And I suppose...
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