Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent on broadcaster Alan Jones being arrested over allegations of indecent assault

Former Wallabies coach and broadcaster Alan Jones has been arrested over allegations of indecent assault.

Child Abuse Squad detectives swarmed the 83-year-old's Sydney home today.

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says Jones has not been charged as of yet, but the allegations go back decades.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oliver Peterson's six PR Perth Live presenters with us Hey.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Ollie get aheader.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
How far back to these Alan Jones allegations.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Go decades and the breaking news is in about twenty
minutes the New South Wales Police Force will be holding
a press conference in relation to this. He has not
been charged at this stage, header, but this does go
back decades prior to obviously even coaching the Wallabies, Alan
Jones was a teacher at a number of schools in Sydney,

(00:26):
So you would imagine the fact that police have been
investigating those allegations for the last nine months that there
is some more information set to come to light in
about twenty minutes or so from now, so we will
hear whether or not Alan Jones has been charged. You
would probably suggest he is going to be charged just
by the level of detail that has also already been

(00:48):
released by the New South Wales Police Force. And this
obviously involves that time as I said, as he was
a high school teacher, then working as the coach of
the Wallabies, and then he's very successful on air media
career that matter, going on to hold the ratings crown
in Sydney Breakfast Radio at two GB for about twenty years.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
So when we say arrested as in taken down to
the cop shop and charged and let go or actually
still in the clink.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Still in the click as we speak, we don't know
if he's been let go yet. We do have obviously
vision and pictures of him in the back of a
I think it was a Hyunday Actually it wasn't a
Mark police car, as he was leaving his apartment this
morning near the Sydney Opera House.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
So obviously we'll know more from police very soon.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Absolutely. Now, so what is this about the rule that
businesses have to accept cash?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well, this is what the Treasurer is starting to put
out there that by twenty twenty six he wants it
to be a requirement for businesses like groceries, fuel outlets
other essentials that they must accept cash as a payment. Now,
I reckon this is a bit of a vote grubber
and this is an attempt to try and particularly with
a lot of older Australians who are understandably a little

(01:54):
bit skeptical when it comes to digital payments. I think
we all are these days, to be honest, They're not
just brandishing. Old people are saying they don't want to
pay with their cards. But I mean, look, you should
still have the option right and it's legal tender. So
I don't mind this idea, but I just think it's
coming at a time where the government's on the nose
and they think, hey.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
What if we tell everybody they can pay with cash,
we're going to be voted back in. So that's been suggested.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
The other one that I think is really interesting they've
suggested is that if a bank decides to close a
regional branch, they have to pay a levy.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Now to exactly, but the government it's going to come
back to us. They just pay a levy.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
So you know, bank bashing is you know, the government's
had to be a success in recent months bashing the supermarkets,
so I reckon they're now I CA been moving on
to the banks because they're just trying to find enemies.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
That's just my little gut feel on this one. Ether.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, it feels a little desperate, doesn't it. Okay, I
couldn't quite get my head around this. So how is
how why if a Sydney school is trying to fight
screen time addiction, why is it giving out phones?

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I agree with you, This is an interesting one. People.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Ladies College, which is where my sisters went. By the way,
they're going to start giving students smartphones from year five
to year seven. So in year four and year five
they can use a smartphone to make calls and send texts.
In year fives to year seven they can add a
camera and they can have learning apps. In years eight
nine they can access chat groups. And then from year

(03:17):
ten it's just a free for all. And they think, well,
hold on, we've got to go with them. We've got
to educate the kids. Now, I don't think that helps,
to be honest, I mean, unless you're giving someone a
dumb phone, Heather, like a phone that can only make
calls and send text messages when they're younger.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
I can see the merit in that.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Particularly, we're in a different world than obviously when you
and I grew up, and we're the parents are young kids,
so I'm a bit more open minded about phones and
k I'm going I got a six year old. But
in the next five or ten years, I can see
the question being asked, Dad, I want a phone. Maybe
the dumb phone's the option so that I can call him,
he can call me, but he doesn't need a camera
to take photos, he doesn't need social media, he doesn't
need to access the internet. Pinball Ladies College though in

(03:55):
Sydney is saying no, no, no, we're going to go on
an education process with the students, so it's going to
be no fear of missing out. Is their argument they
can educate the students is they're graduating through the years
of school, so they're not bullying each other.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
So they so, I mean, idealistically it sounds great.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Exactly, how can you control what they're then sending to
people at neighboring schools or other schools or other teens,
et cetera.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, nah, I think I think your gut
feels right there, Ollie, thank you. Olli Peterson six pr
PERS Live presenter.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I don't mind.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
I actually think they're all like the school is onto
something here where you've got to teach the kids how
to do the thing right, Like same as you should
teach your kids how to drink responsibly, right, Give them
a little bit of wine when they're still at home
and stuff. Teach them how to drink with dinner and
stuff so they don't just go out and get you know,
absolutely chattered. With the kids at the minute they taste beer,

(04:44):
but where the school. So the idea of holding their
hand and teaching them how to do the thing is
the right thing. But I think where they're going wrong
is the chat groups at twelve, because remember year eight
and you're still twelve at year eight, Right, that's about
four years too early. According to the book The Anxious Generation,
which is now my bible for raising truechildren with screen times. Right,
we know I'm a complete evangelist on this. I'm going
completely lost. I've gone mental. But he says, sixteen that's

(05:07):
when you introduce the social media for the first time.
So twelve is miles too.

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