Troy Buswell, the leader of the Liberal Party in Australia, has refused to resign after admitting that he sniffed the chair of a female member of parliament after she stood up. The perverted incident happened in 2005.He dismissed allegations on 13 different occasions that he had sniffed the seat, before finally admitting that it had in fact taken place. Mr Buswell’s deputy, Kim Hames, stood by him, describing him as a rough diamond with a "robust sense of humor." Other members of the Liberal party said privately they were disgusted by the whole episode, but would not challenge Mr Buswell as leader of the Liberals because there was no better candidate.
The woman at the centre of the row, who wants to remain anonymous, said the seat-sniffing saga happened at Mr Buswell’s office in the Western Australian state parliament. The MP had done it to get a laugh from colleagues, she claimed. “I was shocked and outraged and I told him,” she said. He has previously admitted to snapping a woman’s bra as a drunken party trick and has been accused by a retiring Liberal MP of making sexist remarks to her. "So what? What's wrong with being sexy?" he said after the accusations were first levied.
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