Matt Brown's antics make global news

By Brett Cox
Updated November 5 2012 - 6:04pm, first published September 15 2008 - 5:28am

Bulgaria and Qatar woke up on Friday to read how an Australian MP in NSW had danced in his undies and "mounted" the chest of another, older, female MP.In the same way Beth Morgan made worldwide headlines for her unique development approval process at Wollongong City Council, the NSW party incident involving Kiama MP Matt Brown and Wollongong MP Noreen Hay has taken the Illawarra global.Beside VisitBulgaria.info and The Peninsula in Qatar, news services in the UK, Canada, South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand, among other countries, ran the story.Notorious UK tabloid The Sun published a photo of the mid-section of an unknown man in brown underpants on its website with the headline: "Pants dancer resigns."Readers looking for similarly themed stories were encouraged to click on another yarn, entitled: "Girl from opera takes off topera."

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