On Saturday night of November 13th 2004, Australian Falun Dafa practitioners gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy in Canberra to call for the trial of the instigator of this persecution, Jiang Zemin, and his perpetrators Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang, according to the law.
Batlow, a small country town in the Snowy Mountains of Australia, is famous for it’s lovely mountain scenery and crisp juicy apples. Recently it staged its first Apple Blossom Festival for many years.
Not long after the people of Wollongong were impressed by the once-a-year Viva la Gong grand parade a week ago, Wollongong Falun Dafa practitioners were again invited to join the Viva la Gong ‘Family Fiesta’ last weekend.
Eastwood is where the Granny Smith Apple originated, thus the Granny Smith Apple Festival became a tradition in the North district of Sydney. This year marked the 19th anniversary of this festival and it is also the fifth time that Falun Gong practitioners took part in the celebration.
Falun Dafa practitioners from Southeast Queensland took part in the Queensland Multicultural Festival in Brisbane’s beautiful Roma Street Parklands. This was the largest multicultural festival to date sponsored by the Premier’s office, and an estimated 30,000 people attended the activities.
The Viva la Gong festival is 9 days of music, art, dance, fashion, film, sculpture, theatre, food and family fun. This is the 5th annual festival of arts, culture and innovation and the second year that Falun Dafa has been invited to participate.
For the second year in a row, Falun Gong practitioners from around Queensland took part in the Cairns “Festival of Lights Parade.” Cairns is a world-famous tourist destination in the far north of Queensland, home to many attractions including the Great Barrier Reef.
The Waverly Council is hosting a series of events to bring attention to the hardships suffered by refugees who are escaping persecution in their homelands. This year’s theme at Bondi Pavilion is focusing on oppression suffered by Falun Gong practitioners in China.
The Sydney University Falun Dafa Club took part in a food fair for the University’s Multicultural Day earlier this month. The club provided traditional Chinese dumplings and egg-tarts for the students, and performed a demonstration of the Falun Dafa exercises.
On Saturday 25th of September Falun Dafa in the Southern Highlands New South Wales Australia held a Hongfa and Parade for Bowral Tulip Time, which is a spring garden festival draws tens of thousands of tourists (including from China).
In the last few days the University of Western Sydney’s Falun Dafa Club
held a floral tribute to remember the 1,000 Falun Dafa practitioners who had been
tortured to death in China, during the last five years of persecution.
The event was held at Penrith campus as part of the university Human
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This was the 100th year anniversary for the city of Toowoomba, Queensland’s Premier Mr Peter Beattie attended the festivities and was a guest of honour at the parade.