 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".No further attempts to reform the law were been made for some time, however in 2010 a governing Labor backbencher and former minister, Stephanie Key, announced she would introduce a private members decriminalisation bill.