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SYDNEY - Australia’s longest-serving government politician, conservative Kevin Andrews, is campaigning on Chinese social media app WeChat to fight off a challenge from a Chinese-speaking rival in Saturday’s election.
Although the WeChat platform figured only sparingly in the last election, it is a major campaign tool this time, as politicians employ Chinese speakers to run channels in areas where large numbers of voters speak Mandarin and Cantonese.“I think he will win,” said Chris Chen, a WeChat moderator from Andrews’s city of Melbourne who counts the lower house member of three decades among his 300 chatgroup members.
“Even though we are getting to be quite a sizeable chunk of the population, we are not represented in the same numbers in parliament,” she told Reuters. “If the Australian major parties and politicians don’t engage...on the major social media platform that most Chinese migrants use, they lose a really valuable opportunity,” she added.
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