Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei is a "greater moral evil" than poker machines. At least, according to federal Liberal parliamentarian Tim Wilson, who rolled out the line on Sky News in support of Malcolm Turnbull's call for Huawei's local lawyer (and anti-pokies campaigner) Nick Xenophon to join the Foreign Influence Register.

Wilson is a member of a loose parliamentary grouping of China hawks who dub themselves The Wolverines, in reference to a film about teenagers who single-handedly fought off a Soviet invasion. But unlike, we'd wager, most of the Wolverines, he's had the opportunity to witness Huawei's "moral evil" first hand.