WeChat has over 1.2 billion active users, predominantly in mainline China, but also throughout the world. The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, was one of these until recently. The Prime Minister's Office began experiencing access issues before the account turned up as "Australian-Chinese New Life." Senior government politicians have accused China's government of foreign interference.



WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has been given permission to make an appeal to the British Supreme Court to hear an appeal against his extradition to the US.

The Australian Government has washed its hands of any decision the ABC might make about compulsory logins for its iview service, saying the taxpayer-funded broadcaster has content and operational independence to do what it likes.

Payments as a service platform operator mx51 has appointed Jim Tate as its chair.

Enterprise automation software company UiPath partners with Coursera to offer automation education courses to over 92 million users registered in the learning platform.

The Aboriginal flag may now be freely used after the Federal Government acquired the copyright for $20.05m.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire

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