With days left to the election, Australian opposition candidates have been wooing a crucial group that turned its back on the conservative Liberal-National coalition in the last election: Chinese Australian voters. Nearly six in 10 Chinese Australians use WeChat at least once a day, according to a poll by Lowy Institute in 2022. Chinese Australians have traditionally leaned conservative, but in several seats with large Chinese Australian populations, the Liberals saw swings away three times larger than in other seats. "When Chinese Australians want to be politically involved at a deeper level, we are sometimes cast as suspicious characters," says Sydney resident Erin Chew. BBC/Kelly Ng Bennelong is among a handful of marginal seats in the country with a large proportion of Chinese Australians