Senate Hopeful Faces Questions Over Previous Legal Work for Huawei Australia

Senate Hopeful Faces Questions Over Previous Legal Work for Huawei Australia
Nick Xenophon speaks to the press in the Adelaide Hills town of Stirling on July 3, 2016. Brenton Edwards/AFP via Getty Images
Daniel Y. Teng
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Former South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon is busy defending his previous role providing legal work—and occasional public advocacy—on behalf of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

Xenophon announced a week earlier that he would be running for the Australian Senate against former colleague Rex Patrick, who took Xenophon’s place when he retired from Parliament in 2017.