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 today.

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.