The Australian media landscape has been rocked by a series of shocking allegations against Alan Jones, the once-unchallenged monarch of talkback radio. The recent release of court documents has shed light on the gravity of the accusations against Jones, who is set to appear in court later this month.

Alan Jones, a name synonymous with Australian radio for decades, is facing a staggering 26 charges, including committing an aggravated indecent act and sexually touching a person without consent. These charges are connected to incidents involving nine separate complainants over a period spanning from January 2005 to 2019.

The allegations, which have sent ripples through the media industry, suggest that the incidents took place at various locations, including Jones' former Newtown residence, his opulent Circular Quay apartment, and a property in Fitzroy Falls in the Southern Highlands.

Former radio host Alan Jones is facing 26 charges, including aggravated indecent act and sexual touching without consent, involving nine separate complainants. Credit: Facebook / Alan Jones

Among the 26 allegations, 10 are particularly concerning, as they involve a person referred to as Complainant C, who was reportedly 'directly employed' by Jones. The police claim that Jones engaged in a range of inappropriate behaviors with Complainant C, including touching the man's knee, leg, and inner thigh; rubbing his penis; and repeatedly kissing him on the lips, with the latest incident alleged to have occurred as recently as 2009.

The court documents also detail allegations involving other complainants. For instance, Complainant A alleges that Jones kissed him 'with tongue' at Fitzroy Falls in January 2017, while Complainant B accuses Jones of fondling his penis and kissing him at Newtown. Complainant D's allegations include Jones touching his penis, pulling his scrotum, stroking his thigh, and touching his bottom in 2008 at Kiama.

Further allegations include Jones touching the mid-thigh and assaulting Complainant E in Alexandria, squeezing another man's bottom in Sydney, and sexually touching without consent another man in Sydney in 2019 – the most recent of the allegations.

The former radio host and political commentator was charged with these offences following his arrest at his harbourside apartment after a police raid on the morning of November 18. He was granted conditional bail and is scheduled to appear in Downing Centre Local Court on December 18.

While Jones has not yet entered any pleas, he has publicly denied the allegations in a five-minute video released in March. His defense is being managed by high-profile lawyers Chris Murphy and Bryan Wrench, who are known for their legal acumen.

These allegations against Alan Jones are not only a personal crisis for the former radio host but also raise broader questions about the culture within the media industry and the mechanisms in place to protect individuals from abuse and harassment.

For our readers at the Seniors Discount Club, this news may come as a shock, especially for those who have listened to Jones over the years and held him in high regard. It's a stark reminder that no matter how high-profile or respected an individual may be, they are not above the law and must be held accountable for their actions.

As the case unfolds, we will be watching closely to see how justice is served. We encourage our community to stay informed and to support those who bravely come forward with their stories. It's crucial that we foster an environment where individuals feel safe to speak out against misconduct, no matter the stature of the accused.

Key Takeaways

• Alan Jones, a former prominent radio host, is facing 26 charges including aggravated indecent act and sexually touching a person without consent across nine separate complainants.
• The alleged incidents spanned from January 2005 to 2019 and took place at various locations, including Jones' residences and other properties.
• Detailed accusations include inappropriate touching, sexual acts, and unconsented kisses involving individuals who were under Jones' authority or in his presence.
• Jones was arrested and charged following a police raid, and while he has denied the allegations, he will be appearing in court represented by high-profile lawyers.

What are your thoughts on these developments? Have you been following the case? Let us know in the comments below, and remember, it's important to reserve judgment until all the facts are presented and the legal process has taken its course.

 

[Suzanne rose]

If these complaints date back so may years why is it only now that something is being done?

I was gang raped when I was 13. Dud I report it ... nope because I felt no one would believe me because they guys were well known and liked in our area.

When I was 16 , my now husband and his mates went after those who did it and two copped the biggest hidding.

So please don't ask why things are not reported earlier

 

[Luckyus]

Anybody that molests children whether, sexualuy or not should be once sonvicted. Taken to a place of execution and sumarily executed on the spot, whith this punishtment, there is no recidivism.

 

[BigAl6164]

Do you know how hard it is for a victim to speak out especially against a very rich and influential person like Alan Jones.

Questions victims ask is, Will people believe me?
Will people turn against me?
Will people blame me?

And the overwhelming feeling of uselessness.

It just takes one person to speak out and that gives encouragement to other victims.

Sounds like you are an Alan Jones fan.

Well said! Riskydave seems to see the world through tinted glasses and have zero understanding of victim-survivor dynamics.

 

[BigAl6164]

I was gang raped when I was 13. Dud I report it ... nope because I felt no one would believe me because they guys were well known and liked in our area.

When I was 16 , my now husband and his mates went after those who did it and two copped the biggest hidding.

So please don't ask why things are not reported earlier

I'm so sorry you had such a horrendous experience, Suzanne . Victim-survivors typically take decades to come forward, all the time wrestling with grief, guilt and overwhelming shame, to name just a few of the psychological pressures they face. It's 2024 and we've had the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse. It's unconscionable that  anyone is still publicly displaying such wanton ignorance.

 

[BigAl6164]

Anybody that molests children whether, sexualuy or not should be once sonvicted. Taken to a lace of execution and sumarily executed on the spot, whise this punishtment there is no recidivism.

Repulsive as such crimes are, retributive revenge is not the answer.

 

[GrannyJA!]

Do you know how hard it is for a victim to speak out especially against a very rich and influential person like Alan Jones.

Questions victims ask is, Will people believe me?
Will people turn against me?
Will people blame me?

And the overwhelming feeling of uselessness.

It just takes one person to speak out and that gives encouragement to other victims.

Sounds like you are an Alan Jones fan.

Most 'Joe Average' people only come forward when someone else has taken the chance of not being believed. We should all "take our hays off" to those who stand up to be heard, especially when they don't even know if they will be believed. A high profile individual has a much greater chance of being believed than someone whom nobody has ever heard of.

 

[BigAl6164]

Isn't it amazing how people ask the same stupid question, they must live under a rock

I should get my sister to join SDC and tell her story to make some of these people on here understand.

Quite right! I doubt whether those who know so much would bother to listen to any facts which contradict their Palaeolithic viewpoints. One can only surmise that such ignorant "thinking" arises from the truly blessed lives of people who have never known the horrors and trauma of sexualised or other abuse.

So the Hey Dad victim-survivor only took 20 years to come forward. What amazing alacrity. Most victim-survivors take closer to 40 years to come forward, through all of which they live daily with the trauma, unwarranted guilt, and overwhelming shame, depression, anxiety, PTSD. These are terrible psychological horrors the questioners are most fortunate not to have experienced.

 

[BigAl6164]

Most 'Joe Average' people only come forward when someone else has taken the chance of not being believed. We should all "take our hays off" to those who stand up to be heard, especially when they don't even know if they will be believed. A high profile individual has a much greater chance of being believed than someone whom nobody has ever heard of.

Spot on

 

[Nichola]

I have said this a squillion times regarding historical cases of sexual abuse "committed" by "celebrity" males against girls and young women. The case of Robert Hughes of "Hey Dad" fame immediately springs to mind. Sarah Monahan took about 20 years to make allegations against Hughes.

The case of Alan Jones is no different in time frame.

Although with Sarah Monaghan, one of her fellow actors did voice his concern AT THE TIME, and made sure that she was not left alone with Hughes at any time during filming or rehearsals. It was known that Hughes was a menace, but management did nothing. That's why things take so long.

My ex husband, John Watts, was an art teacher here in Victoria and from 1979 onward at Greythorn High School he was actively grooming a girl in his Year 10 art class. He implemented a 'photography' course, and made full 'use' of the dark room for trysts with this girl. Then at a school camp he started sexually abusing her in 1980. He was reported to the school who, instead of sacking him, merely moved him to another school - just as the Church has moved its pedophile priests over decades. However, he got back in touch with her clandestinely, and continued the relationship throughout her Year 11 and 12. He even convinced her to move in with him after she finished school. Eventually their relationship broke down. Meanwhile this man applied for, and got, jobs in two Catholic Girls' Schools, by deception - never admitting that he had been dismissed from Greythorn High for misconduct. In 2006, the girl brought a formal complaint against him for historic abuse. In a hearing, with witnesses, he lied about his actions - denying it even happened even though he had confessed to the Principal (and me, and the girl's mother) at the time. He was not believed, and he was found guilty of serious misconduct which normally would see him lose his licence to teach. But he got away with it - because of the amount of time that had passed and because the Catholic school he worked for didn't want any bad publicity.

So even when pests like this are reported at the time, their victims don't get justice. And most of the time, if they wait and bring a complaint later, it's still almost impossible to get justice. But you can see why victims wait for years.

 

[Boganbaby.]

Alan Jones would not be the only person to hide behind the " a well respected figure in the community".

 

[Veggiepatch]

Although with Sarah Monaghan, one of her fellow actors did voice his concern AT THE TIME, and made sure that she was not left alone with Hughes at any time during filming or rehearsals. It was known that Hughes was a menace, but management did nothing. That's why things take so long.

My ex husband, John Watts, was an art teacher here in Victoria and from 1979 onward at Greythorn High School he was actively grooming a girl in his Year 10 art class. He implemented a 'photography' course, and made full 'use' of the dark room for trysts with this girl. Then at a school camp he started sexually abusing her in 1980. He was reported to the school who, instead of sacking him, merely moved him to another school - just as the Church has moved its pedophile priests over decades. However, he got back in touch with her clandestinely, and continued the relationship throughout her Year 11 and 12. He even convinced her to move in with him after she finished school. Eventually their relationship broke down. Meanwhile this man applied for, and got, jobs in two Catholic Girls' Schools, by deception - never admitting that he had been dismissed from Greythorn High for misconduct. In 2006, the girl brought a formal complaint against him for historic abuse. In a hearing, with witnesses, he lied about his actions - denying it even happened even though he had confessed to the Principal (and me, and the girl's mother) at the time. He was not believed, and he was found guilty of serious misconduct which normally would see him lose his licence to teach. But he got away with it - because of the amount of time that had passed and because the Catholic school he worked for didn't want any bad publicity.

So even when pests like this are reported at the time, their victims don't get justice. And most of the time, if they wait and bring a complaint later, it's still almost impossible to get justice. But you can see why victims wait for years.

@Nichola that is a truly sad account of what happened to you and the victims of your ex husband's abuse. I can relate to that by being a victim of random HOMOSEXUAL sexual assault as a 14 year old.

People call me homophobic and racist. Until you have walked in my shoes YOU WILL NEVER KNOW.

Murder of these creeps is not an option. IT IS A DUTY.

Bring it on, you cock jockeys and carpet munching rainbow worshiping freaks!

 

[Nichola]

@Nichola that is a truly sad account of what happened to you and the victims of your ex husband's abuse. I can relate to that by being a victim of random HOMOSEXUAL sexual assault as a 14 year old.

People call me homophobic and racist. Until you have walked in my shoes YOU WILL NEVER KNOW.

Murder of these creeps is not an option. IT IS A DUTY.

Bring it on, you cock jockeys and carpet munching rainbow worshiping freaks!

Let's tell it like it is, Veggie! You're quite right and ANGRY doesn't even come close to describing how victims feel. And lets not forget that children generally do not report abuse - for all sorts of reasons that psychologists are only just starting to understand.

 

[BigAl6164]

Although with Sarah Monaghan, one of her fellow actors did voice his concern AT THE TIME, and made sure that she was not left alone with Hughes at any time during filming or rehearsals. It was known that Hughes was a menace, but management did nothing. That's why things take so long.

My ex husband, John Watts, was an art teacher here in Victoria and from 1979 onward at Greythorn High School he was actively grooming a girl in his Year 10 art class. He implemented a 'photography' course, and made full 'use' of the dark room for trysts with this girl. Then at a school camp he started sexually abusing her in 1980. He was reported to the school who, instead of sacking him, merely moved him to another school - just as the Church has moved its pedophile priests over decades. However, he got back in touch with her clandestinely, and continued the relationship throughout her Year 11 and 12. He even convinced her to move in with him after she finished school. Eventually their relationship broke down. Meanwhile this man applied for, and got, jobs in two Catholic Girls' Schools, by deception - never admitting that he had been dismissed from Greythorn High for misconduct. In 2006, the girl brought a formal complaint against him for historic abuse. In a hearing, with witnesses, he lied about his actions - denying it even happened even though he had confessed to the Principal (and me, and the girl's mother) at the time. He was not believed, and he was found guilty of serious misconduct which normally would see him lose his licence to teach. But he got away with it - because of the amount of time that had passed and because the Catholic school he worked for didn't want any bad publicity.

So even when pests like this are reported at the time, their victims don't get justice. And most of the time, if they wait and bring a complaint later, it's still almost impossible to get justice. But you can see why victims wait for years.

That's criminal. It makes the institution complicit. Why aren't they charged also?

 

[BigAl6164]

Let's tell it like it is, Veggie! You're quite right and ANGRY doesn't even come close to describing how victims feel. And lets not forget that children generally do not report abuse - for all sorts of reasons that psychologists are only just starting to understand.

Psychologists have been aware of reporting delays and dynamics for well over a decade. It's not a secret.

 

[Luckyus]

Repulsive as such crimes are, retributive revenge is not the answer.

I'll be the judge of that? not some apologist.

 

[GrannyJA!]

Repulsive as such crimes are, retributive revenge is not the answer.

I don't know, maybe an hour with the victim's parents and then life in solitary?

 

[deni67]

Although with Sarah Monaghan, one of her fellow actors did voice his concern AT THE TIME, and made sure that she was not left alone with Hughes at any time during filming or rehearsals. It was known that Hughes was a menace, but management did nothing. That's why things take so long.

My ex husband, John Watts, was an art teacher here in Victoria and from 1979 onward at Greythorn High School he was actively grooming a girl in his Year 10 art class. He implemented a 'photography' course, and made full 'use' of the dark room for trysts with this girl. Then at a school camp he started sexually abusing her in 1980. He was reported to the school who, instead of sacking him, merely moved him to another school - just as the Church has moved its pedophile priests over decades. However, he got back in touch with her clandestinely, and continued the relationship throughout her Year 11 and 12. He even convinced her to move in with him after she finished school. Eventually their relationship broke down. Meanwhile this man applied for, and got, jobs in two Catholic Girls' Schools, by deception - never admitting that he had been dismissed from Greythorn High for misconduct. In 2006, the girl brought a formal complaint against him for historic abuse. In a hearing, with witnesses, he lied about his actions - denying it even happened even though he had confessed to the Principal (and me, and the girl's mother) at the time. He was not believed, and he was found guilty of serious misconduct which normally would see him lose his licence to teach. But he got away with it - because of the amount of time that had passed and because the Catholic school he worked for didn't want any bad publicity.

So even when pests like this are reported at the time, their victims don't get justice. And most of the time, if they wait and bring a complaint later, it's still almost impossible to get justice. But you can see why victims wait for years.

I remember the Sarah Monaghan case well, it was so sad at the time and I was very angry that it was "allowed" to happen.
If I remember correctly she brought the photo below into court, look where his hand is and at her face, she's trying to fake a smile but it comes across as a scared little girl

 

[magpie1]

@Nichola that is a truly sad account of what happened to you and the victims of your ex husband's abuse. I can relate to that by being a victim of random HOMOSEXUAL sexual assault as a 14 year old.

People call me homophobic and racist. Until you have walked in my shoes YOU WILL NEVER KNOW.

Murder of these creeps is not an option. IT IS A DUTY.

Bring it on, you cock jockeys and carpet munching rainbow worshiping freaks!

Like you Veggiepatch, I to was a victim of random HOMOSEXUAL sexual assault as a 14 year old...it took me until just a few weeks ago to go public here on the SDC forum....up until then only one other person in my family was told about it....that's 58 years that I had lived with it bottled up inside me....it was a great relief in some way by getting it finally off my chest.....cannot begin to tell you what that did to me over so many many years,....but no longer. Any and all child molesters should be eliminated as soon as found guilty in my opinion, to hell with them and prison sentences.

 

[BigAl6164]

I'll be the judge of that? not some apologist.

Roflmfao You won't be judging shit. I think you'll find that some person in a black robe and funny wig will be doing all the judging and all you and I will have is this little space. You can then apply the logo.

BTW, here's a Pro Tip: don't rush into a reply if you can't read plain English.

Meanwhile, you keep stroking your retributive fantasies. I remain deeply concerned about the victim-survivors, the people given a life sentence for crimes they didn't commit. You might try that, too.

 

[Veggiepatch]

Like you Veggiepatch, I to was a victim of random HOMOSEXUAL sexual assault as a 14 year old...it took me until just a few weeks ago to go public here on the SDC forum....up until then only one other person in my family was told about it....that's 58 years that I had lived with it bottled up inside me....it was a great relief in some way by getting it finally off my chest.....cannot begin to tell you what that did to me over so many many years,....but no longer. Any and all child molesters should be eliminated as soon as found guilty in my opinion, to hell with them and prison sentences.

Exactly! It took me about 15 years before telling ANYONE about what happened in a public toilet at South Cronulla Beach on a rainy Wednesday morning in July 1974, just a week from my 15th birthday.