A CANBERRA radio broadcaster today was suspended for suggesting a minister attach a camera to his penis to look up the skirt of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

"I said it and then a whole lot of people started ringing up asking, 'What did you just say?'," Jorian Gardner, on-air announcer and news director of 2CC told news.com.au today.



Mr Gardner said that on the breakfast show this morning he had been discussing lapel cameras for police.



He then suggested that Communications Minister Stephen Conroy should go into a cabinet meeting with a camera attached to his penis to video up the Prime Minister's skirt.



"To see if she's got any balls," said Mr Gardner later.



He was called in by station management and suspended for at least a week, he said.



"They took the appropriate action. I took it too far," Mr Gardner told news.com.au today.



But he said he would defy a management instruction to apologise to Ms Gillard and Senator Conroy.



"Come on, it wasn't worse than anything Kyle Sandilands has done," said Mr Gardner, referring to the controversial 2DAYFM broadcaster.



He insisted the up-skirt reference was just a joke and but acknowledged his program director Pete Davidson didn't see it that way.



Mr Davidson later told the Canberra Times Mr Gardner's behaviour had not been acceptable.



"It's not a long suspension, but we needed to send the message that this wouldn't be tolerated," he said.

