The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it was providing consular assistance to an Australian man detained in Cambodia.
On Friday afternoon he faced court in the capital Phnom Penh and was officially charged with “collecting information prejudicial to national security”.
An Australian film-maker has been sent to a Cambodian prison to await trial over allegations he collected information prejudicial to the country’s national security, a court official says.
The offence includes collecting or receiving information with a view to supplying them to a “foreign state or its agents”.