Former colleague testifies to alleged unwanted touching by Alan Jones in 2008

In a Sydney courtroom, a young man's account of working beside one of Australia's most powerful media figures has become a reckoning with the invisible architecture of workplace power. Complainant C, who was eighteen when he first encountered broadcaster Alan Jones, testified that admiration and ambition drew him close to a man whose influence over his career made resistance to unwanted sexual contact feel not merely difficult, but structurally impossible. His testimony is one thread in a broader legal proceeding involving twenty-two charges across six complainants — a trial that asks, at its