
The battle began in the 2016 federal election when the Liberal Party used WeChat to publish information about LGBT and the safe schools program for the seat of Chisholm in Victoria. “So it’ll probably take some time to make sure we catch up to how the communities are communicating with each other.” “It is true that I think WeChat has become much more popular in the community than it was at the last election,” Ms Wong said. Labor Senator Penny Wong visited Chinese Australian Services Society in Burwood on April 23. Senator Penny Wong in Burwood to support Labor’s Sam Crosby. Only 9.79 per cent of Mandarin-speaking Australian participants chose Facebook or Twitter as their most-used platforms to obtain news. According to Professor Sun’ research, 60.31 per cent of Mandarin-speaking participants living in Australia reported WeChat as their most used news platform, followed by news organisation websites (20.79 per cent). Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Communication Studies at UTS, described WeChat as “a key battleground in the federal election”. Five days later Mr Shorten announced the Labor party would support long-stay visas for those parents. On April 17 Mr Morrison announced temporary visas for parents of migrants. The Labor opposition leader and Liberal Prime Minister are battling it out on the popular social media platform hoping to win over Chinese voters in tomorrow’s election. Photo: Wuruo Xuīill Shorten updates his WeChat account in Mandarin every day and has live-streamed question and answer sessions with Chinese-Australians while Scott Morrison has posted 22 ‘articles’ since signing up three months ago.

Sam Crosby and Kevin Rudd dismiss rumours in Burwood.
