PM seeks advice on Chinese donor speech

Security agencies have been asked for advice on the implications of an MP's decision to name a political donor allegedly involved in a UN bribery case.

Malcolm Turnbull has sought security agency advice on the implications of a Liberal MP's decision to identify a Chinese-Australian billionaire allegedly involved in the bribery of a former UN General Assembly president.

The prime minister told parliament he had asked security chiefs for advice on the implications of Andrew Hastie's speech on Tuesday night.

Mr Hastie used parliamentary privilege to announce a man known as "CC-3" in FBI documents about the bribery case was political donor Dr Chau Chak Wing.

"The same man who co-conspired to bribe the United Nations General Assembly president John Ashe, the same man with extensive contacts in the Chinese Communist Party," Mr Hastie said on Tuesday night.

Mr Turnbull said Mr Hastie received the information from a US briefing, also attended by at least one Labor MP, which was not classified.

"The allegations are not new, they have been made before, they are subject to legal proceedings and I do not propose to say anything more about them," Mr Turnbull told parliament on Wednesday.