Queensland LNP MP George Christensen has announced he will retire at the next federal election and will not contest his seat.

Mr Christensen told the Courier-Mail that “the time was right” to retire and said it had always been his intention to serve three terms.

But the controversial MP declared he would continue to be vocal about politics which he claimed was “broken” and “dominated by an activist mainstream media along with other leftist cultural institutions”.

Mr Christensen has represented the seat of Dawson for the past 11 years and has regularly courted controversy.

He rejected climate change as a “conspiracy”, was a supporter of Donald Trump and opposed same sex marriage.

He was derided as the “member for Manila” after it was revealed he took 28 trips to the Philippines in just four years, spending nearly 300 days in total in the country, and was alleged to have been a regular at strip clubs there.