DJ sacked over Julia Gillard interview
A radio presenter has been sacked in Australia for asking Prime Minister Julia Gillard in a live interview if her partner is gay.
Howard Sattler suggested to Ms Gillard that her partner of seven years, Tim Mathieson, had to be homosexual because he was a hairdresser.
Ms Gillard characterised his comments as an absurd generalisation.
The DJ was suspended and then sacked by Fairfax Radio, which apologised for the "disrespectful" questioning.
14 Jun 2013
- From the section Asia-Pacific