The Liberal Police Minister, Robert Brokenshire, introduced four Bills in 1999, the "Prostitution (Licensing) Bill 1999", the "Prostitution (Registration) Bill 1999", the "Prostitution (Regulation) Bill 1999" and the "Summary Offences (Prostitution) Bill 1999", to revise the laws and decriminalise prostitution. The "Prostitution (Regulation) Bill" was passed by the House of Assembly and received by the Legislative Council on 13 July 2000, but defeated on 17 July 2001, 12:7. The Bill was also supported by the Australian Democrats. The then Minister for the status of Women, Diana Laidlaw is said to have been moved to tears, and called her colleagues "gutless". Another MLC, Sandra Kanck (Australian Democrat 1993–2009) angrily stated that sex workers had been "thrown to the wolves by Parliament".