AAP General News (Australia)
04-17-2010
WA: Woman in WA chair-sniffing scandal seeks law changes
The woman who was caught up in a political chair-sniffing scandal in Western Australia
has helped draft proposed new laws to protect parliamentary staff from sexual harassment.
KARRY SMITH was a Liberal Party staffer in 2005 when then deputy party leader TROY
BUSWELL picked up a chair she had been sitting on and began sniffing it.
After the incident made headlines in 2008 .. Mr BUSWELL was forced to stand down as
opposition leader .. only months after being elected.
Ms SMITH has revealed she's been working with Labor MP MARTIN WHITELY on a private
member's bill to amend WA's Equal Opportunity Act to extend sexual harassment coverage
to state parliamentary and electoral workers.
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KEYWORD: BUSWELL (PERTH)
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