The social media chatgroup has become a major campaign tool in the Australian election.
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.
"There are many Liberal supporters in my chatgroup and they are not fussed if the candidate is Chinese or not," Chen added, referring to the centre-right Liberal party.People of Chinese ancestry account for 15.5 percent of Andrews' constituency of Menzies in the southeastern state of Victoria, census data shows, above the national average.
The chat group's members include Hong Kong-born Liberal candidate Gladys Liu and Taiwan-born Labor candidate Jennifer Yang, who last month held Australia's first campaign debate in Mandarin for a seat adjacent to Andrews'.
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