![]() ![]() The Scott Morrison account was registered in 2019 using the name of a Chinese citizen in mainland China as its account operator, WeChat records show and a government source confirmed.įeaturing Mr. Tencent didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.īoth the Liberals and the main opposition Labor Party set up official WeChat accounts for their leaders through outsourced agencies. The Prime Minister’s office has made multiple fruitless requests to WeChat to regain access to the account, most recently on January 10, said a person with knowledge of the matter, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter. With a national election due by May, the government would have aimed to use the Morrison account to promote its policies during the Chinese New Year celebrations starting February 1. In December 2020 the Scott Morrison WeChat account was temporarily blocked amid a political dispute between Canberra and Beijing over an image of an Australian soldier in AfghanistanĪustralia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Liberal Party lost access to his official WeChat social media account months ago, politicians said on January 24, issuing claims of censorship, while the still-active account being run by an unidentified controller now promotes Chinese life in Australia.Īmid growing diplomatic tensions with China, Australia’s two major political parties have used the social media platform, owned by Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, to communicate with Australian voters of Chinese ethnicity in tightly fought electorates since 2019.
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