The Australian Federal Police warned that MP George Christensen could be questioned in the Philippines by local police given rising concerns about his payments to women and lengthy stays in "seedy" hotels
"Christensen had an unusually complex online presence and had been spending substantial sums in Manila bars and nightclubs as well as making many small payments to women there," the former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull writes
"Against the advice of our embassy in the Philippines, he had been staying in seedy hotels in Angeles City, which was not only recklessly unsafe but made him vulnerable to being compromised."
Mr Christensen has attacked media coverage of his visits to the Philippines as a "vile smear" and insisted he did nothing wrong, but some of his colleagues have dubbed him the "Member for Manila" for spending almost 300 days in the Philippine capital between 2014 and 2018. The concerns about the MP's travel also related to trips to Thailand.
"For a member in a marginal seat who claimed to be a devout Christian to be spending nearly a third of the year overseas, on full pay as an MP, staying in a seedy part of Manila and hanging out in bars and nightclubs beggared belief," Turnbull writes
While Mr Christensen held his seat by a tight margin at the time of his many visits to the Philippines, he was re-elected at the May election last year with an 11.2 per cent swing towards him despite the controversy
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"Christensen had an unusually complex online presence and had been spending substantial sums in Manila bars and nightclubs as well as making many small payments to women there," the former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull writes
"Against the advice of our embassy in the Philippines, he had been staying in seedy hotels in Angeles City, which was not only recklessly unsafe but made him vulnerable to being compromised."
Mr Christensen has attacked media coverage of his visits to the Philippines as a "vile smear" and insisted he did nothing wrong, but some of his colleagues have dubbed him the "Member for Manila" for spending almost 300 days in the Philippine capital between 2014 and 2018. The concerns about the MP's travel also related to trips to Thailand.
"For a member in a marginal seat who claimed to be a devout Christian to be spending nearly a third of the year overseas, on full pay as an MP, staying in a seedy part of Manila and hanging out in bars and nightclubs beggared belief," Turnbull writes
While Mr Christensen held his seat by a tight margin at the time of his many visits to the Philippines, he was re-elected at the May election last year with an 11.2 per cent swing towards him despite the controversy
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https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fede...16-p54kfg.html
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