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===Australia=== * July 29, 2009: On his morning breakfast radio show, Australian DJ [[Kyle Sandilands]] provoked outrage when his "[[Lie Detector]]" segment featured a 14-year-old girl who, when quizzed on her sexual history by her mother, broke down, revealing she had been raped at the age of 12. Kyle then said her mother meant any intercourse other than rape. The show was suspended for one week. Sandilands provoked further outrage three days after his suspension expired when he made a slur about [[Jenny Craig]] ambassador [[Magda Szubanski]], saying she could have lost more weight in a [[Nazi concentration camp|concentration camp]]. Sandilands was suspended for ten days without pay, and after a review on September 18, had his suspension extended by three weeks. Sandilands returned to air on October 8, apologized for the incident, and was blessed by a priest at the start of the show. * December 4, 2012. Australian DJs [[Mel Greig]] and [[Mike Christian]] made a prank call to a hospital in London where the [[Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge|Duchess of Cambridge]] was treated for "acute [[morning sickness]]", recording and playing the call later on air. After the nurse involved [[Death of Jacintha Saldanha|committed suicide]] the incident received international media coverage.<ref>{{cite news|author = Caroline Davies|title = DJ apologises to Jacintha Saldanha's family as nurse's death ruled suicide|newspaper = The Guardian|date = 12 September 2014|url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/jacintha-saldanha-death-suicide-prank-call-dj-apologises|access-date = 23 August 2017}}</ref> * June 13, 2013. A Perth radio host Howard Sattler was fired after he asked prime minister [[Julia Gillard]] if her partner [[Tim Mathieson]] was gay because he was a male hairdresser.<ref name=Australiapm>{{cite news|title='Is your partner gay?' Shock jock sacked over Gillard interview. |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/is-your-partner-gay-shock-jock-sacked-over-gillard-interview-8659094.html|access-date=14 June 2013|location=London|work=The Independent|first=Kathy|last=Marks|date=June 14, 2013}}</ref>
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