Apparently the joys of working as an Australian bureaucrat do not include being able to dance in your underwear at a parliamentary office party.
Don't believe us? Just as newly resigned police minister of New South Wales, Matt Brown, about his "semi-naked" dance.
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.
First of all, what are "very brief" underpants? It's like a thong, right? Why would Matt Brown have been wearing a thong? Maybe the Times Online can be a little more specific about the incident.
Witnesses at the party, including MPs and Labour staffers, claimed Mr Brown, 36, dressed only in "very brief" underpants had gyrated to loud techno music on a green leather Chesterfield sofa, then "mounted the chest" of fellow MP Noreen Hay. A witness told The Australian newspaper that he called out to Ms Hay's adult daughter during the performance: "Look at this, I'm tittie-f****ing your mother."
Wow. OK. When tittie-f***ing someone's mom, best to have it all hanging out there.
And we thought semi-naked dancing was in the job description for Australian housing ministers. No wonder we didn't get a second interview when we applied for the job.