A West Australian Liberal MP says an incident in which he was reportedly "squirrel-gripped" by party leader Troy Buswell had been dealt with and is no longer an issue.
Mr Buswell allegedly grabbed Liberal backbencher Murray Cowper in the crotch on the same night he snapped a Labor staffer's bra during a drunken night at Parliament House last October, The West Australian has reported.
Mr Cowper did not confirm or deny the report on Friday, but said the "incident" in parliament last year had been dealt with.
"As far as I'm concerned the matter's dead," Mr Cowper, a former policeman, told AAP.
"And I think it's time for everyone to move on, the media included."
The West Australian said it understood the force of the action had winded Mr Cowper.
Mr Buswell, who has admitted sniffing a former Liberal staffer's chair in 2005 and has also been accused making sexist remarks to female a Liberal MP, recently survived a party room spill motion sparked on by the scandals.
A spokesman for Buswell, who was on Friday in Geraldton on a tour of the state's mid-west, said the opposition leader did not recall the incident.
Scandals and bitter infighting within both major parties have prompted National Party leader Brendan Grylls to call for a snap election.
Mr Grylls said parliament had become dysfunctional and an election was needed to clear the air and allow MPs to get on with the job of governing
