Wanning Sun, a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Technology, Sydney has written an interesting piece for Crikey on how some Chinese voters are viewing the Coalition’s election promises:

Many voters today likely associate Pezzullo with this misconduct, but to most Chinese Australians, his name is synonymous with war-mongering. The former public servant is a long-term staunch national security hawk who wants the US-Australia alliance to “go on a war footing”, and has speculated that a conflict with China may be “only 33 months away”. Mere days ago, on ANZAC Day, Pezzullo again sounded the alarm that “the drums are beating once again”

The prospect of Dutton bringing back Pezzullo is a source of disquiet for many Chinese Australians. Curiously, it was only last month that Pezzullo appeared to serve no value to the Coalition except as a scapegoat. Speaking to a large crowd of Chinese Australians in downtown Sydney, Liberal MP and candidate for Menzies Keith Wolahan was keen to disabuse his audience of the notion that the opposition leader was a war-monger, clarifying that “Peter Dutton never said ‘drums of war’. It was Mike Pezzullo.”

You can read the whole piece, here.