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IF YOU thought John Howard was having a bad election campaign, spare a thought for Andrew Quah, a candidate for the Family First Party. He has been dumped as its candidate for the western Sydney seat of Reid after photos of him parading his private parts appeared on gay websites and were emailed around the country.Mr Quah, 21, has also admitted to looking at porn websites in the past two weeks, which made his position untenable given his party's strong commitment to protect children by making porn harder to access on the internet.
Mr Quah told the Herald yesterday he thought it was possible that he had posed for the compromising photographs. "I might have been drunk off my face or my political enemies might have drugged me."
One photo shows him exposing his private parts as he takes a picture of himself in a mirror.
"But that's not my penis," he said. So whose was it?
"Look, maybe somebody photoshopped it, and put another one on the photo," he said. "I can tell you, it's not me. I know these things. But really,
I can't remember … All I know, I have been humiliated."
So too has Family First. Its leader, Steve Fielding, counselled Mr Quah when the news surfaced at the weekend - then disendorsed him, dropped him from the Family First NSW executive and expelled him.