Australia’s Chinese community proved to be a powerful voting bloc in the last election. 

And as the time draws near to vote again, a growing number of politicians have realised that appealing to the country’s 1.5 million Chinese Australians is key to electoral success. 

But as journalist Wing Kuang has found, the major parties’ attempts to court Chinese voters are proving to be rocky. 

The Chinese-owned app, RedNote, is a new frontier in efforts to reach Chinese voters. But with speech on RedNote filtered by an authoritarian regime, it raises questions about how political debate in Australia is being shaped by foreign rules.

Today, contributor to The Saturday Paper, Wing Kuang, on how the Chinese community might shape the outcome of the election – and what they really think of Albanese and Dutton.

 

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Guest: Contributor to The Saturday Paper Wing Kuang

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