Sky News suspends producer over Sarah Hanson-Young broadcast

Sky News has apologised to politician Sarah Hanson-Young over comments broadcast about her on the channel’s controversial right-wing Sunday morning show Outsiders.

The show, hosted by Rowan Dean and Ross Cameron, invited eccentric senator David Leyonhjelm onto the program days after he had shouted abusive comments at Hanson-Young on Parliament, telling her to “stop shagging men”.

During the broadcast he made further comments about her, which were also repeated in an on-screen caption.

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