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Andrew Quah (born April 25, 1985) is an Australian politician who was associated with the Family First political party until a high profile scandal involving revealing photographs of himself engulfed his candidacy during the 2007 Australian federal election.
Quah had been elected to the New South Wales state executive of Family First and as President of its youth wing Youth First. He was also the party's candidate in the safe ALP Sydney seat of Reid. Prior to that, he had been active in Sydney University student politics as an independent.
On 28 October 2007 the Sunday Herald Sun reported that Quah had been sacked from all party positions and expelled as a party member following Quah's admission that he had appeared in revealing photographs.
This was considered an especially unwise thing for a Family First candidate to do because of the socially conservative aspects to most of the party policy.
The newspaper reported "He said he could not rule out being responsible for producing a third image attached to the email featuring graphic shots of a man's genitalia."
The newspaper appeared to be acting in concert with political blogger Andrew Landeryou who simultaneously reported on the story.
Quah's unfortunate run of adverse publicity continued with a front-page story in the Sydney Morning Herald reporting that "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.'"
The story of Quah's misfortune was reported across the world, on many gay news sites in the United States, Reuters India, television news across Australia and in the New Zealand press. It was one of the biggest stories of that day of the campaign.
Andrew Quah is a pianist, bonsai grower and music teacher who studied at the Sydney Conservatorium and at Sydney University. His bonsai care methods have come under fire by some critics, with one prominent bonsai grower claiming it was "Like a bad chinese take-away trying to compete with a five star restaurant".
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http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2007/10/andrew_quah.asp
