Campbell Newman has had a lively cooking lesson but his party has gone out of the frying pan and into the fire with a new candidate scandal.
The Liberal National Party (LNP) leader had a lesson in Taiwanese cookery on Thursday but is unlikely to be using his new skills to treat his wife Lisa.
"I'll see, I'll see," he told reporters in Brisbane, at a lesson on dumpling making.
Mr Newman insisted he did all the cooking before he got into politics but his wife had recently taken on the "burden".
He didn't seem to rate Lisa's cooking but said he wouldn't say anything unpleasant because it was International Women's Day.
If asked tomorrow, he chuckled, he may be more candid.
The LNP stumbled on a new candidate scandal on Thursday.
Mark Boothman, who is running for the Gold Coast seat of Albert, was reportedly running a soft porn website before he was preselected to run in the Labor seat.
He insisted the site was set up as a forum for car enthusiasts but had been hacked with adult content.
Two years after the inappropriate content was posted he shut down the site.
The LNP launched an investigation into the matter on Thursday and later kept Mr Boothman as their candidate.
Mr Newman said the decision had nothing to do with the fact that nominations for candidates had closed and the LNP would not be able to contest the seat if Mr Boothman was dropped.
"We wouldn't have been afraid to get rid of somebody if they had been on the ballot paper and had done the wrong thing," he told reporters in Brisbane.
"I will stand beside him because at the end of the day he is a terrific young bloke, he is a family man."
It is the fourth candidate controversy for the LNP.
Solicitor Cameron Caldwell was ousted for attending a swingers club four years ago, and his predecessor, Richard Towson, resigned when he was caught drink-driving.
The LNP has kept Cairns candidate Gavin King, formerly a Cairns Post columnist, who in 2008 suggested drunk women were partly to blame if they were raped.
Mr Newman was also forced to deny that he has been making policy on the run after announcing a LNP government would review alcohol bans in indigenous communities in its first 18 months of office.
On Wednesday he said he wanted the bans lifted eventually but did not mention a review.
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