Howard Sattler stood down after Tim Mathieson gay query PERTH shock jock Howard Sattler was last night suspended by Fairfax Media after an interview with Julia Gillard during which he questioned if Tim Mathieson, her partner of seven years, could be a closeted homosexual because he was a hairdresser. After the Prime Minister ridiculed Sattler's "vile and offensive" suggestion, Sattler's employer, Fairfax-owned 6PR, said the questions posed by Sattler were "disrespectful and irrelevant to the political debate."