Tony Buti

Antonio De Paulo "Tony" Buti[a] (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian politician.

He has been a Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly representing the seat of Armadale since 2 October 2010, when he was elected in a by-election.

[1] He completed his PhD, which dealt with guardianship law and the Stolen Generations, at Wolfson College, Oxford University in 2003.

In 2010, following Labor frontbencher Alannah MacTiernan's resignation from the state Parliament to contest the federal seat of Canning at the 2010 federal election, Buti was preselected as Labor's candidate for the 2010 Armadale state by-election.

[2] Following the 2021 Western Australian state election, Buti was formally sworn in as minister for finance; lands; sport and recreation; citizenship and multicultural interests on 19 March 2021.