In the 2020 incident, a note appeared from WeChat saying the content violated regulations, including distorting historical events and confusing the public. ![]() They declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter. 10 saying it acted on behalf of the Prime Minister, and requesting the account be returned, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. 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 Afghanistan. The agency handling Morrison's social media account lost access to it last July, and emailed WeChat on Jan. “Any account set up in this way can be shut down at a moment’s notice,” he said. The Prime Minister’s Office has made several useless requests to WeChat to gain access to the account. “Yet they can still gain access to critiques of the government, attacks on the government by the (Labor) Opposition Leader,” he added.įergus Ryan, senior analyst with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said having the Prime Minister’s WeChat account registered under the name of a Chinese citizen was “always risky and ill-advised,” and appeared to be a breach of WeChat rules. With the national election due in May, the government will aim to use the Morrison account to promote its policies during Chinese New Year celebrations beginning on February 1. 10 saying it acted on behalf of the Prime Minister, and requesting the account be. “There’s 1.2 million Australians of Chinese descent who overwhelmingly use this service and now can no longer access news and information from their Prime Minister,” he said on Australian radio on Monday. The agency handling Morrison’s social media account lost access to it last July, and emailed WeChat on Jan. 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. RT StandwithHK: Australia PM ScottMorrisonMP loses control of WeChat account as election looms His account was renamed ‘Australia China New Life’ in January by a Chinese company, which notified followers the account would instead promote Chinese life in Australia. Liberal Senator James Paterson, Chair of Parliament’s Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, told media the incident was an example of “censorship” and “foreign interference.” What the Chinese government has done by shutting down an Australian account is foreign interference of Australian democracy in an election year. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Australian PM loses control of Wechat Chinese account as election looms.
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