Aussies in their underwear.

[Woody]

It seems that the Aussie Minister did a dance in his underwear at an office party and now is resigning because of it.

Bravus ... I am not into Aussie politics as much as you are into US politics ... but what happened? Did he have a cooking show on the side or what? Can you give us the 'rest of the story'?

[Nan]

This story is at a state level - New South Wales. The Labour government is very unpopular, seen as ineffective, bad managers etc and last Friday the Premier was forced to resign, along with the Treasurer and another minister. The new Premier picked a new minsitry. The new police minister, Matt Brown, had had some minor roles in the previous cabinet. 3 days after he was sworn in, someone leaked a story to a national newspaper that after the presentation of the state budget in May, Mr Brown had a little gathering in his office. As the night wore on, he is alleged to have stripped off most of his clothes and become a little familiar with an older lady member of the parliament. She denies this, but her name is already rather suspect because of some allegations of improper dealings between her and the city authorities in her electorate. So it is a matter of he said she said, but the new premier has decided to demand the resignation of Mr Brown. Which is a good thing, that he no longer has minsterial responsibility.

But the story will probably continue to smoulder!!!

[Woody]

Thanks Nan. We have to make sure that all the mud is CLEAR.

[Bravus]

Yeah, the NSW government is a bit of a basket case at the moment, unfortunately.