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Australia: Falun Dafa Inspires Visitors to Ormeau Fair on the Gold Coast

Australia NewsSeptember 18, 20160Comments

Many Australians felt something special after learning about Falun Dafa at the Ormeau Fair on the Gold Coast in Queensland. The Ormeau Lions Club invited Falun Dafa practitioners for the fourth year in a row to the fair held on September 3-4, 2016. The major community event attracts thousands of people each year. An Asian…

Wollongong, Australia: Falun Gong Group Welcomed in Spring Festival

Australia NewsSeptember 18, 20160Comments

The Tian Guo Marching band in Sydney was invited to participate in the 35th Spring into Corrimal festival (Corrimal a suburb of Greater Wollongong) on September 11, 2016. The band was well received with warm applause from spectators. The “Spring into Corrimal” Family Festival, one of the biggest one-day events in New South Wales, attracted…

Australians Call on Prime Minister to Bring Up Falun Gong Issue During China Trip

Australia NewsSeptember 9, 20160Comments

Before Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's visit to China for the G20 Summit, Falun Gong practitioners and supporters held several large scale rallies in Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane, requesting the Prime Minister to bring up the persecution of Falun Gong during his meeting with Chinese leaders and to help stop the state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting…

Australia: Falun Dafa Experiencing Sharing Conference Held in Melbourne

Australia NewsSeptember 8, 20160Comments

Nearly 1,000 practitioners attended the 2016 Australia Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference at Melbourne Town Hall on September 4. Twenty-three practitioners, both Chinese and Western, spoke onstage about how they have benefited from Falun Dafa, looked within to improve, and worked to fulfill their historic vows. 2016 Australia Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference at Melbourne Town…

Melbourne, Australia: Grand March Demonstrates Beauty of Falun Dafa and Calls for an End to the Persecution in China

Australia NewsSeptember 8, 20160Comments

Falun Dafa practitioners across Australia held a series of activities in Melbourne prior to their annual cultivation experience sharing conference. A grand march through downtown Melbourne brought color, music and increased awareness of the persecution to many on September 2. Banners read, “Falun Dafa is good” and “The world needs Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance”. Locals and tourists alike signed…

Australia: Car Tour Calls for an End to the Ongoing Persecution in China

Australia NewsSeptember 2, 20160Comments

Australian Falun Dafa practitioners in Sydney began a 100-city car tour on August 29, 2016. The tour aims at raise awareness of the ongoing persecution of Falun Dafa in China, especially the state-sanctioned large-scale forced organ harvesting from living Falun Dafa practitioners in China. They also call upon the Australian government of various levels, along…

Canberra: National car tour to 100 cities kicks off ahead of G20 Summit calling for Falun Gong persecution to stop

Australia News, Media ReleaseAugust 29, 20160Comments

Falun Gong practitioners from around Australia will hold a rally and a press conference outside Parliament House in Canberra on 30th August 2016, as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull prepares to go to China for the G20 Summit.

Australia: “Hard to Believe” Premiere Inspires  Social Action on the Gold Coast, Queensland

Australia NewsAugust 28, 20160Comments

Many in the audience were deeply moved when they saw the multi-award winning documentary Hard to Believe on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. The documentary, which covers the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) killing of prisoners of conscience for their organs, was screened for the first time on the Gold Coast on August 12, 2016…

Sydney: National car tour to 100 cities kicks off ahead of G20 Summit calling for Falun Gong persecution to stop

Australia NewsAugust 26, 20160Comments

Falun Gong practitioners in Sydney will commence a 100-city car tour on August 29, as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull prepares to go to China for the G20 Summit. The aim for the car tour is to raise awareness amongst Australians about the ongoing 17-year long persecution in China. In particular Falun Gong practitioners will…

Introducing Falun Gong at Toowoomba Languages and Cultures Festival

Australia NewsAugust 21, 20160Comments

Falun Gong practitioners in Toowoomba, Australia, participated in the 9th Toowoomba Languages and Cultures (TLC) Festival on August 14, 2016. This multicultural event in the “Garden City” attracted more than 10,000 people in the area. Many visitors stopped at the Falun Gong booth for informational materials or to find out how to learn the practice.…

Sydney, Australia: Participants in World’s Largest Charity Fun Run Support Falun Gong’s Peaceful Resistance

Australia NewsAugust 21, 20160Comments

Runners in the annual Sydney “City2Surf” road race, besides enjoying a day of fun and camaraderie, had the opportunity to learn about Falun Gong and the brutal persecution of this peaceful cultivation practice in China. As the largest charity fundraising race in the world, the City2Surf fun run attracted 80,000 runners last Sunday. Local Falun…

China’s State-Sanctioned Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners Stuns Mainstream Australians

Australia NewsAugust 17, 20160Comments

China's state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has drawn the attention of mainstream Australia, especially after the release of the new investigation report by David Kilgour, former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific; human rights lawyer David Matas; and senior reporter Ethan Gutmann in late June 2016. People are calling on the Australian…