“National security should always be treated seriously, which is why I’m more than happy to have a discussion with either our (security) agencies or prime minister. “I’ll be seeing (Morrison) this week because of the Australia Day commemorations in Canberra and I’ll have a chat with him directly,” the opposition leader told Brisbane radio station 4BC. Labor leader Anthony Albanese flagged he would seek a meeting with Morrison to discuss any national security implications. It’s very, very disappointing to see the prime minister prevented from having that access.” “It should be on offer to politicians of all political persuasions, it shouldn’t be a political football. “It’s something we would like to see rectified because it’s a method of communication to the Australian Chinese community which is very important,” he said. The treasurer Josh Frydenberg called on WeChat to restore access to the prime minister’s account. More than half of the online fraud cases cracked by Chinese authorities last year were conducted through WeChat, the so-called super-app that allows users to do almost everything from mobile payment to ticket booking, according to a. “It wouldn’t be at all surprising if those two events were connected.” Chinese authorities slammed WeChat as the country’s most popular messaging app overtook QQ as the online tool most favored by swindlers to conduct online fraud. “What the Chinese government has done by shutting down an Australian account is foreign interference of Australian democracy in an election year,” he told 2GB.

First released in 2011, it became the worlds. Liberal senator James Paterson, who chairs parliament’s intelligence and security committee, said the blocking of Morrison’s account was sanctioned by the Chinese government and amounted to foreign interference. WeChat and Weixin are a Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. A screenshot of the ‘Australia China New Life’ WeChat account, which was formerly prime minister Scott Morrison's official account.

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