About three million people from seventy two countries around the world come to Melbourne to watch the Commonwealth Games. Practitioners in Melbourne take the opportunity to hold various events to introduce Falun Dafa and expose the atrocities that the Chinese Communist regime has committed in the persecution of Falun Gong.
A Sydney woman suing Ex-Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin and the 610 Office (secret Chinese police), says she will seek a court order to pressure the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) into serving legal documents on the defendants.
On February 15, 2006, the 78th Student Union at the University of Sydney held the first annual student union conference. A student representative who is also a Falun Gong practitioner proposed a resolution supporting Falun Gong practitioners’ freedom and condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong, and the resolution was passed.
On January 28, 2006, the 9th “Freedom, People’s Choice Exhibition” organized by Australian Amnesty International had an award ceremony. One Falun Gong practitioner’s oil painting, “The Death of a Truthfulness Compassion Tolerance Believer” won the “People’s Choice” award. Another Chinese-Australian painter and Falun Gong practitioner, Zhang Cuiying’s traditional Chinese painting, “The Beauty of Spring” won…
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Gao Zhisheng has stated that he has been threatened and harassed by the authorities since October 2005, when he sent an open letter to the Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, urging them to respect religious freedom and end the “barbaric” crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China.
A number of Falun Gong practitioners around Australia have been harassed during the Christmas and New Year celebrations by a series of disturbing phone calls believed to stem from the Chinese Communist Regime.
In 1996, Master Li came to Sydney to introduce Dafa to people in Australia, and designated the exercise site in Darling Harbour. Since then, local practitioners have steadily come to the site to do the exercises over the past nine years, no matter what the weather conditions.
At noon on December 16, Sydney practitioners held a press conference in front of the Thai Consulate regarding the recent unlawful arrests of practitioners. John Deller, chairperson of New South Wales Falun Dafa Association, delivered an open letter to the Thai Consul General.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the Herald’s China correspondent, Hamish MacDonald, won a Walkley Award on December 1 for his article on Falun Gong published in October 2004.
At a board meeting of the University of Western Sydney Students’ Association, all members unanimously passed a resolution to support Falun Gong, condemn the Chinese Communist Regime’ persecution of Falun Gong, and protest the extension of such persecution to Australia.
Zhang Dejiang, member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Politburo and Secretary of the CCP Committee of Guangdong Province, was served with a summons from the Supreme Court of New South Wales for the crime of torture against a Sydney resident, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xie Yan. He received the court summons as he…