Antonio De Paulo "Tony" Buti is an Australian politician.
Education
Buti attended the University of Western Australia and later the Australian National University, where he studied law, receiving his Bachelor of Laws in 1992. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy, which dealt with guardianship law and the Stolen Generations, at Oxford University in 2003.
Career
He has been an Australian 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. From 1997, Buti lectured at the School of Law in Murdoch University. He is the author of several books on the removal of Aboriginal children from their families, as well as sports law.
He is also chairman of the Armadale Redevelopment Authority.
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 by-election.