Why the Liberals are desperate to win back Chinese-Australians

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At the federal election in May, Chinese-Australian voters turned against the Coalition. The state opposition has been pulling out all the stops to get them back. | Emma Ding and annikasmethurst

despite a 6.3 per cent swing against him, which he attributed, in part, to Chinese-Australians rejecting his party.

Eight weeks after the federal election, a letter from Opposition Leader Matthew Guy appeared on social networking platform, WeChat, on a Mandarin channel dedicated to news about Melbourne. Detailing his life story and plans for the state, the piece was read by 12,000 users. By contrast, Victorian Labor’s WeChat presence features former prime minister Kevin Rudd addressing social media users in Mandarin, alongside Labor’s Matt Fregon who is running for the seat of Ashwood, as well as Box Hill MP Paul Hamer and Meng Heang Tak, who represents Clarinda.

Pollster and former Victorian Labor campaigner Kos Samaras said while the Chinese-Australia vote would have less of an impact at a state level, he said the way the parties had engaged with Chinese-Australians voters would be crucial to the outcome, particularly in Melbourne’s east.Victoria’s Belt and Road agreement in 2018“Labor will need the community’s support to hold seats like Box Hill, Ringwood and Ashwood after election day,” Samaras said.

 

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annikasmethurst Good luck with that! 🤣🤣🤣

annikasmethurst The libs run a consistent white australia policy with an anti china rhetoric. Don’t be fooled. A vote for liberals is. Vote against diversity.

annikasmethurst To then go back to insulting them after the election.

annikasmethurst So, after Dutton and Morrison whipped up so much racial hatred and destroyed our trade and diplomatic relations, suddenly someone sees political consequences in their confected narrative? Beggars belief.

annikasmethurst All the stops..😂 how about stop being dog whistling sinophobes LiberalVictoria LiberalAus

annikasmethurst Asians from SKorea,China, Spore, Msia loath the out of date public transport in Melb Compared to their mother land infrastructure,Vic standards is pathetic Daniel Andrews is managing right and dynamic with entire metropolitan rail development No way regressive Libs can do it.

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