News.com.au (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
A SENIOR Federal Government MP has taken aim at WA Treasurer Troy Buswell, saying his "offensive" behaviour is grounds for excluding him from meetings.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
State Commerce Minister Troy Buswell said there was no way he would allow WA to return to "the days of union thuggery and rogue behaviour" before the Australian Building and Construction Commission, saying construction sites were then ruled by fear and intimidation. "Western Australia saw the worst of the worst and we won't go there again," he told The Australian.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
WA Treasurer Troy Buswell's bra-snapping and chair-sniffing antics have earned him an Ernie at a ceremony held to recognise men for acts of ''outrageous sexism''.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
WA Treasurer Troy Buswell has cut the state's annual land tax by an average of 7 per cent.
NO QUARTER (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... after suggesting lovelorn “beauty-disadvantaged” women move to Mt Isa to find a man. Political - Troy Buswell, Western Australia opposition leader, now minister - for snapping the bra of a female staffer, making sexist remarks to a Liberal MP, and sniffing the chair of a Liberal staffer. Media - John Westacoff, for making the comment “Sheilas do health and consumer stories, you want...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... were to occur. There would also need to be a substantial rise in education funding. Treasurer Troy Buswell, who was grappling yesterday with new Treasury figures showing the state's revenue has begun shrinking, said Mr Rudd needed to rethink his demands on the states. "We're not going across to Canberra to be railroaded into using WA taxpayer funds to fund Kevin Rudd's election commitments,"...
MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Chair sniffing secondMalony got only slightly more boos to win his award than Troy Buswell, the former opposition leader and serving Treasurer of Western Australia state, who earlier this year was accused of sniffing a female staffer's chair and snapping a bra strap.
Sky News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... awards Malony saw off some stiff opposition for his golden gong.The country's former shadow leader Troy Buswell was runner up, having been accused of sniffing a female staffer's chair and snapping a bra strap earlier in the year.
Salopblog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... and shame them," Meredith Burgmann, a New South Wales MP, told state radio. Malony narrowly pipped Troy Buswell, the former opposition leader in western Australia, who won the political Ernie after being accused earlier this year of sniffing a female colleague's chair and snapping a bra strap. The Channel Nine TV network won two gongs, one for sacking a senior female reporter while...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... political story in WA over the past year, were singled out for revealing the scandals that cost Troy Buswell his leadership of the Liberal Party and shaped the political landscape in WA. Lampathakis also won the Health and Medical News category for his exclusive investigation into the dumping of confidential patient records in a bin on Royal Perth Hospital grounds. The Sunday Times...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
MILLIONS of dollars of taxpayers' cash was pumped into unions by the previous Labor state government to fund what Treasurer Troy Buswell has slammed as ``dubious'' job and training schemes.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
MILLIONS of dollars of taxpayers' cash was pumped into unions by the previous Labor state government to fund what Treasurer Troy Buswell has slammed as ``dubious'' job and training schemes.
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
... and has now come under further fire from Western Australia's new Liberal Government.WA Treasurer Troy Buswell said the scheme would strangle investment in his big mining state, hammering jobs and families.Newspoll reported that this fear was creeping through the scheme's former support base as the financial crisis dominates politics, headlines, and suburban fears.It said that while...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
In its submission to the Federal Government's Green Paper, WA argues it would be premature to start the scheme in 2010 without the design being properly worked out.The state faces the risk of losing several major projects to other markets if costs are not properly ameliorated, Treasurer Troy Buswell says.Recent high commodity prices - for nickel for example - could also lead to some activities...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
... Mr Marney -- who plays a major role in shaping each year's Budget and is second only to Treasurer Troy Buswell -- said the credit crunch meant investment was likely to stall, meaning job losses. ``I am not trying to be the Grinch who stopped Christmas, but given the fact that people are already facing high levels of personal debt and there is significant pressure on asset prices such...
