http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23702432-12377,00.html

and here I was doing research on th homicidal triangle and whether Troy had the other requirements necessary.for the FBI profile on such people….
loved this quote:

“I also take this opportunity to place on the record that I am a big fan of quokkas and wish no ill towards them”

I wish he’d stop taking these opportunities.

At least, we shouldn’t – I’d imagine the difference is pretty important for the WA Libs though!

There is allegedly video of the incident. Is he a first year engineering student at UWA, or an ambitious politician?

When it come to the gratuitous torture of small animals, should we care?

Funny as Buswell’s slo-mo demise is, unfortunately the comically absurd quokka sex angle is the result of subbies’ “unfortunate” choice of wording. What he’s actually been “linked to” is the bashing of a quokka by means of booting it from WA Lib pollie to WA Lib pollie.

So I’d argue that consent is unlikely to pertain as mitigation in this case.

And as much as I’d like to dismiss the whole thing – it’s disgusting to think about, for a start – after the chair-sniffing I really don’t know any more. There is allegedly video of the incident. Is he a first year engineering student at UWA, or an ambitious politician?

When I first heard the quokka story I thought it was brilliant, but then the Libs aren’t THAT clever: when you can’t back away or get around from a story like the chair sniffing, release a few more stories, increasingly ridiculous, so that then ALL the stories become just funny, ie it’s the stories that are laughable, a running gag, not the bloke. Genius.

or until someone else comes and kicks the shit out of you.

*Volunteers*

If Buswell were not in strife already for bizarre and repulsive behaviour indicating a total disregard for other human beings (look at that photo, I mean, just look at it — you’re not born looking like that, it has to be earned), would this rumour ever have even got off the ground? Given that the chair-sniffing and all that that implies seems to be true beyond doubt, I (for one) now regard this dude as capable of truly anything.

Has anyone mentioned Richard Gere yet?

LOLZ!!!1!

Poor little blighters, those quokkas. Always getting the rough end of the stick, whether it’s leavers’ week or a Libs getaway.

“Quokka soccer”, for the uninitiated, is precisely what it sounds like. Kick it until it’s dead or not fun any more, or until someone else comes and kicks the shit out of you.

*whistles nonchalantly*

Paul, you’re a great guy but you might like to consider a few sources more up to date than your old Catlick school teachers. We all step very warily into such debates (as women, it’s because we’re often slapped down and insulted if we do); but as the Shapely Prose blogger Kate Harding pointed out once in a post that has become deservedly famous, it is incumbent on men to point it out once in a while if they don’t want to be enablers. She points out that some of the men making with the “hurh, hurh” creepy jokes really are creepy. “And that guy? thought you were on his side.” Sorry, can’t find the reference via Google.

BUT I reckon therer’s a huge difference from getting an awatd for having the best boobs in Parliament, (presumably made by male and female parliamentarians, unleess you’re under the misapprehension women don’t sometimes participate in these things AND (if your’re a woman, or man for that matter) some creep sniffing your chair while making orgasmic noises just after you’ve stood up.

It’s a matter of degree, but not of kind. Imagine you’re working under a regional manager of something or other, a suited bloke; would you organise a competition and declare him the Man with the Lowest Hanging Testicles at the Christmas party or Karaoke night? I think not. It’s not as severe as the chair sniffing incident but it does illustrate how women have to work constantly as being seen as legitimate authority figures where the male culture constantly tries to set them up as people to whom it would be OK to do that.

Troy has never been accused of sniffing quokkas.

This alone makes him the most suitable chap to lead the WA Libs.

That Troy may have faults but his talents are needed – and therefore, on balance, given his apology and commitment to better behaviour, I’d give him another go.

AKA: lack of talent in Liberal ranks which is painfully evident in every State.

Lefty E:

I would suggest looking eastward for the next Liberal Government, punters.

Not in Victoria, Russell! I’m still sitting here, popcorn in hand, chuckling at the antics of our Liberal friends here (well, some of it isn’t even funny, I should say.)