Australia News

With the help of Sydney practitioners, the art exhibition titled “Truth, Compassion and Forbearance” was on its way to Wollongong.

Former Chinese diplomat Chen Yonglin, who defected recently from the Chinese Consulate-general in Sydney, successively exposed inside stories about the Chinese Communist regime’s extensive spy network that has infiltrated democratic western countries including Australia and persecuted and harassed Falun Gong practitioners inside and outside of China.

On July 20, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners in Sydney held a series of activities. The purpose of these activities was to expose to the public how communism regime over the past six years has carried out a brutal persecution against Falun Gong practitioners who cultivate Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

Sydney’s University of Technology (UTS) has stood up to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party by refusing to remove mention of a Falun Dafa meditation club from its website. As a result, the UTS website has been blocked in China, which is expected to lower the number of incoming Chinese students, substantially affecting university revenue.

After learning that Australia’s Foreign Minster, Mr Alexander Downer, had yet again signed the two certificates banning all amplified sound and all banners and anything else displaying messages at the Chinese Embassy in Canberra for the 40th month in a row, practitioners held an appeal in front of Brisbane’s DFAT.

Australia Human Rights lawyer Bernard Collaery has filed a lawsuit in the Canberra Federal Court against Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, for abusing the privilege of his position by continually issuing certificates for the last three years to restrain Falun Gong practitioners from displaying banners and playing exercise music in front of the Chinese Embassy in Canberra, the nation’s capital.

On 22nd June, Canberra practitioners held candle light vigil outside the Chinese Embassy in memory of Gao Rongrong who was persecuted to death and strongly condemned the Chinese Communist regime’s atrocities.

On June 11, 2005, New South Wales Falun Dafa Association held an anti-torture exhibit and a press conference in the Belmore Park located in downtown Sydney to further introduce facts about Falun Gong and the CCP’s suppression.