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SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian state government minister was forced to quit following reports that he danced in his underwear at a parliamentary office party, the state premier said Thursday. Matt Brown resigned late Wednesday, only three days after he was sworn in as police minister of Australia's most populous state, New South Wales Premier Nathan Rees said. "I'm a human being and I made a mistake and I'm going to cop the consequences of that mistake," Brown told reporters, without elaborating. The resignation came on the eve of an unsourced report in national newspaper The Australian that Brown danced in "very brief" underpants to techno music on a leather couch during a drunken late night party in his Parliament House office three months ago. He was then housing minister. Rees said he demanded Brown's resignation Wednesday night because the former lawyer and university lecturer — a state lawmaker for nine years — initially gave assurances that "absolutely nothing untoward" had happened during the party. "I subsequently put it to former minister Brown late last night that there are too many reports of you in your underwear for me to ignore," Rees told Fairfax Radio Network. "He conceded he'd been in his underwear and that gave me no option but to demand his resignation." The scandal is a blow to Rees' efforts to revive the flagging fortunes of the 13-year-old Labor Party government with a new leadership team. "Embarrassed doesn't begin to describe it," Rees said. Brown said he had agreed with Rees that he should resign for behaving "in a manner not befitting a minister."

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Can't have a minister acting human.

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Maybe he should have taken off the pants if they offended some.

I agree...imagine having the people find out you like techno! That'd be almost as bad as having people find out a dominatrix likes disco.

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We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

May as well be hung for a sheep as a . . . . sorry WI.

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