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Although Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has been blocked by the Federal Government from supplying equipment to the National Broadband Network (NBN), it has been courting both sides of politics and has hosted senior Liberal frontbenchers for trips to China.

Huawei Technologies, which is close to becoming the world’s largest telecommunications equipment provider, was advised late last year that it could not tender for NBN contracts because of concerns about cyber attacks emanating from China.

The Australian Financial Review on Monday reported that ASIO advice provided the basis for the ban.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard said today that the decision to ban Huawei was “prudent”.

“You would expect, as a government, we would make all of the prudent decisions to make sure that that infrastructure project does what we want it to do, and we’ve taken one of those decisions,” she said.

The federal parliamentary interests register shows Huawei has been courting senior coalition figures.

The register shows Huawei’s Australian arm sponsored trips by the opposition’s Deputy Leader Julie Bishop, finance spokesperson Andrew Robb and frontbencher Bronwyn Bishop to China over the past eight months.

Julie Bishop’s trip included a flight from Perth to Hong Kong, then from Shenzhen to Shanghai and a rail trip from Shanghai to Beijing, as well as accommodation from 4 to 9 January.

She was also given a Huawei MediaPad tablet computer.

Robb and a staffer were guests of Huawei on a trip from 13 to 19 December to Hong Kong and China, which included free transport and hospitality.

Bronwyn Bishop’s trip to Singapore and China, which included business class travel and accommodation paid for by Huawei, was from 1 to 6 August 2011.

Huawei Australia told AAP on Monday it had issued an open invitation to all members of parliament, and the media, to tour its facilities.

“We haven’t targeted one party over another,” Huawei said.

The company also said former Labor premiers Kristina Keneally and John Brumby, who now sits on the company’s Australian board, had also been on sponsored trips.

Former Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer, who also sits on the company’s Australian board, told the ABC that Huawei operated in 100 countries and had been in Australia since 2004 and any concerns about it being involved in cyberwarfare were “absurd”.

“This is a very straightforward, albeit very large, company doing an astonishingly good job in terms of providing telecommunications to a world hungry for improved telecommunications,” Downer said.

Huawei was established in the late 1980s by Ren Zhengfei, a former major in the People’s Liberation Army, and is headquartered in the special economic zone of Shenzen.

Its Australian office opened in 2004 in Sydney and is the operations hub for its business across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.