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UPDATE 12.40pm: WA Premier Colin Barnett just announced Troy Buswell has resigned as Treasurer
Back in 2002 when Laurie Oakes reported on the worst-kept secret in Canberra, that former Democrats darling Cheryl Kernot’s defection to the ALP had more to do with the charms of Foreign Minister Gareth Evans than the promise of a ministry, he set off a quite bitter debate among journalists over the relevance of politicians’ private lives.
Glenn Milne was vocal in his criticism of his press gallery colleague’s decision to fill in the gaps Kernot left in her book Speaking for Myself Again. Lateline devoted a whole segment to the whys and what fors of Oakes’s actions, in which host Tony Jones wondered if the Nine political editor had “actually taken us over some rubicon here”.
WA Treasurer Troy Buswell is firmly in the private-lives-are-private camp, having dug his heels in this morning as he waits for his boss Colin Barnett to decide what to do about the fact Buswell has admitted an affair with a Greens MP, and also copped to using his tax payer-funded car to deliver him to his booty calls.
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