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Man, they keep changing the rules on me. Time to unload the used girl's bicycle seat collection on eBay.

To be fair, maybe he was sniffing for butt smell.

I guess he likes'em with a bit of funk in the junk. Strange birds these Aussies are.

Australia went to shit when they started letting women into pubs and when they paved the road to Perth.

...this guy is giving American politicians a run for their money!

...good thing Ann Coulter didnt visit his office! Talk about awkward.

TROY BUSWELL: Your vagina smells like sweaty balls Miss Coulter!

@HowInsaneIsJohnMcCain:

Especially when you consider that the staples of the Australian diet--Kangaroo and Vegemite--are the leading causes of intestinal gas known to man.

If he's in Australia, and he lifts the chair upside-down, and Australia's in the Southern hemisphere, is the chair really ride side up?

Maybe he was a bloodhound in a former life and can't help it.

@RooseveltFranklin: I know, we have no right to expect our leaders to act like people. That's just silly, even down under...

Troy Buswell sniffed a lady's chair. And Travis Childers said nothing.

In his defence, though, he never inhaled.

That's embarrassing, even for an Aussie. Maybe he's actually from Texas!

Maybe he just really likes Scent of Woman. And this is his interpretation of honoring such cinematic masterpiece.

I smell a line of succession domino effect that could lead to Mr. Midnight Oil being Prime Minister of the Southern Hemisphere sometime very soon.

My mother's Australia. Trust me: This was nothing more than the "Down Under" verison of sending her a box of chockies and a bouquet of flowers.

Nothing to see here, folks. Nothing to see. Move along.

He get on a plane for Tokyo.

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Can't somebody please find the video of his tearful apology speech?

I cum for the lass' down under.

How embarrassing. It's guys like these that make it harder for serious sniffy sniffy vagina clowns like me to get ahead in the workplace.

@graceless: We should also remember that as his career goes down the toilet, it is circling in the opposite direction than it would here in the Northern Hemisphere.

Why does this story make me contemplate suicide? Is the snark getting too easy?

@donner: Vend me your rears, indeed. Good jumpin' gosh almighty the Japanese have some weird fetishes.

My dog does it all the time, and we love him.

They've never been the same since the Anschluss. Oh, wait..Australia. It's the Fosters, which is Australian for 'horse piss'.

@Obamaton: Well Done! All Men At Work should be proud!

How much can one expect in the way of hoity-toity manners from a penal colony?

This is probably about equal with our 'shoulder chuck / howya doin?', by prison standards.

@AngryBlakGuy: and @DaDerga: I'd just like to say thank you to both of you for truely brilliant comments, you both made my day.

@HowInsaneIsJohnMcCain: Considering that the Liberal Party is Australia's conservative party, that is probably right.

I don't see anything wrong with this at all. He didn't sniff her snatch directly. This was vicarious snatch-sniffing, which is protected by the US Constitution. Oh, I forgot. This was in Australia, where they don't have human rights. :(

Can you smell my pussy now?

/"Sordid Lives"

This is a good sign - Endless Cummer is coming... it's coming... omigod!!!!!!!!!!

@ronaldpagan: Vid is on the 'Perth Now' link at the top. In Oz, wives of Endless Cummer politicians are not required to share the podium with spouses.

@RooseveltFranklin: and a horn-dog in this life! "That's Re-in-car-na-tion!"

@norbizness: leading to a Kylie Minogue coup, resulting in a Mr Bean Invasion.

Is he running for President? Maybe it's not too late.

and why do we not have a photo of this beauty????

@Aurelio: Good point. It's like having phone sex with a prostitute! Not illegal, unless you have one of those touchy-feely phones for the blind.

I see that things are returning to normal around here.I'm feeling better too. A few trips to the park for the cherry blossoms and the urge to drive out into the suburbs and set fire to yard signs has subsided. For now.

I am so glad we kicked these guys out on their asses.

This is what the Republican party will be reduced to when they lose the election, ladies and gentlemen.

@TGY: Much like Pisswasser, that is brewed solely for export, tourists and idiot bogans.

Comment on Australian Leader Caught Sniffing Lady Staffer's Chair He's the leader of Western Australia's Liberal (centre-right) Party, not Australia's. That's like getting Schwarzenneger confused with McCain.

I guess he wanted to keep a-breast of things!!!

@ronaldpagan: Will his wife be standing by her man? Wearing powder blue. More likely, beds are burning in that household.

Oh,and BTW:

Clearly upset at the effect the incident had on his family, he said: "She's (Buswell's wife) very understanding and very supportive of me in attempting to change my behaviour."

I'm sure she's supportive. More like propulsive, as in propelling him 30 yards across the lawn with her right foot.

He looks like a seat-sniffer. She should have just calmly resigned, walked over to her desk drawer, shat in it and locked it.

@porter melmoth: For us here in upside down land thats the beginning of endless wanker(?) (for winter).

Good to see my newly adopted home town making Wonkette. I feel like Im back home and part of the family again!

Small nitpick, then you may all resume your crotch-sniffing witticisms.

Buswell is the leader of the Liberals in the state of Western Australia, not Australia as a whole. It's somewhat similar to alleging that US Senator George Allen was arrested for offering $20 blowjobs when it was in fact the lowlier and somewhat less winsome Florida State Representative Bob Allen.

On the other hand, when it comes to an excuse to bag the shit out the GOP/Liberal party, such fine distinctions may be irrelevant.

@HPS: What HPS said.

BTW - If America ran on our fantastic parliamentary system Nancy Pelosi would be President of the USA now. Whoa.

He did not sniff her "chair."

He sniffed her "seat."

In the USA, that means chair. Everywhere else in the English-speaking world, it means... um... something else.

It's a cultural linguistic thing. It's just different, but that don't make it deficient!

A factual note: Buswell is the leader of the Western Australian Liberal Party, currently in opposition (and likely to stay that way). The Federal Leader of the Liberal Party, Brendan Nelson, has expressed his support of Buswell, but recent reports say that there's a WA Lib leadership spill in the offing.

There's a rather special pic of Troy in his younger party-boy days here.

The ABC News website has plenty of video: abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/30/2232064.htm

So amazing!!!

Comment on Australian Leader Caught Sniffing Lady Staffer's Chair Just a correction. The picture you have at the head of this article is of Anthony Fels, a member of the Legislative Council. For a correct picture, you might try the following link. http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/web/newwebparl.nsf/iframewebpages/Legislative+Assembly+-+Current+Members

I, for one, intend to scent everything I sit in in the off-chance someone will sniff it.