Alan Jones

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Alan Belford Jones AO (born 13 April 1941, or perhaps 1942 or 1943) is an Australian radio broadcaster.

He is a former coach of Australia's national rugby union team and rugby league coach and administrator.

He has worked as a school teacher, a speech writer, and even in musical theatre.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Queensland and completed a one-year teaching degree at Worcester College, Oxford.

He has been nominated for both civil and industry awards. On radio station 2GB, Jones hosts a popular Sydney breakfast radio show.

Jones' support for conservative values as well as the success of his radio show have made him Australia's most highly paid and influential media personality.

Despite his fame, he remains a controversial figure.

His on-air work has received critical feedback from Australia's media authorities, and he has been sued for defamation on several occasions.

Early life

Jones was born to farmer and coal miner Charlie Thomas (1906–90) and Elizabeth 'Beth', née Belford; 1906–82). Alan was the middle of three children, with an older brother, Robert Charles, and a younger sister, Colleen, all of whom would become school teachers like their mother and brother. Jones was born on a dairy farm near Oakey, south-east Queensland, attending primary school at Acland State School before transferring to Toowoomba Grammar School as a boarder.

Jones obtained a degree in Education after leaving school and teaching at the Kelvin Grove Teachers College (now part of the Queensland University of Technology) in Brisbane. He began his teaching career at Ironside State School in Brisbane's inner suburbs in 1961. In 1963, he gained a position at Brisbane Grammar School, a private secondary school for boys, where he remained until 1969. He also worked part-time at the University of Queensland for a Bachelor of Arts degree, which he was awarded in 1967. Jones did not cease to teach at Brisbane Grammar but he later became a top athletics, tennis, and, eventually, rugby union coach.

Jones was named Senior English Master at The King's School in Parramatta, Sydney, in 1970. Jones was also heavily involved in a variety of sports, including transitioning to coaching the First XV rugby union side, which he won in an unbeaten season in 1974. Jones resigned from the school at the end of the first term in 1975 after a meeting with the school's principal.

After leaving King's School Jones for a short time, he travelled to Canberra, where he attempted to seek preselection to run as a Country Party candidate in federal parliament. He spent many years as the boss of a small airline in Quirindi, South Wales, where he also coached the local rugby team. Jones spent time in England, where he obtained a one-year degree in educational studies at Worcester College, Oxford, during the same period from 1976–77. When Jones was a student at Oxford, he received a university Blue for tennis.

Jones, a 1978 Sydney based Liberal Party candidate, returned to Sydney to run for the State Parliament as a Liberal Party candidate. Jones spent time as a speechwriter for Liberal NSW Opposition leader John Mason after failing to win his seat in the election. Jones was recruited as a speechwriter for Australia's Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser in 1979, and remained in Canberra until 1981. After being recruited to be executive director of the New South Wales Employers' Federation, where he spent his radio career until 1985, he returned to Sydney.

Jones was named the Year of the Year by the Rostrum Speakers' Award in October 1985.

Personal life

Jones has never been married and has no children. He lives in Sydney.

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