The City to Surf marathon in Sydney, Australia is one of the largest running events in the world by participation. It attracts around 80,000 competitive and fun runners each year who race 8.7 miles (14 km) from Sydney’s Central Business District out to Bondi Beach. This year the marathon was held on August 10, 2019. …
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The Sydney Opera House is one of the most popular tourist sites in the world and many mainland Chinese tourists stop at this World Heritage Site when they visit Australia. Falun Dafa practitioners come to the Opera House to reach out to these tourists and offer them information about Dafa that they cannot easily obtain …
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On April 25, 1999, a peaceful appeal in Beijing surprised the Chinese leadership and the international community when 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered near the State Council Appeals Office to request the release of fellow practitioners who had been illegally arrested for their belief. The gathering was peaceful and without incident, and the Tianjin practitioners were …
During orientation for new students at the University of Sydney from February 20-22, students visited the Falun Dafa Club booth, curious to learn more about the self-improvement meditation system. The University of Sydney usually starts its academic year in February, and orientation is a major event for the students as well as visitors. Falun Dafa …
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Falun Gong practitioners in Sydney hold activities regularly to introduce the meditation to the public and expose the brutality of the persecution in China. “When I searched for information about Falun Gong online, I realised that Falun Gong is very important to Australia,” said Sydney resident Brooke Wern while speaking with a practitioner late last …
Falun Gong practitioners participated in the Lunar New Year parade in Chatswood, a major business and residential district in the Lower North Shore of Sydney. The area is about 10 kilometers from the Sydney Central Business District, and over a third of its population is of Asian ancestry. The event took place on Victoria Avenue, …
Every weekend Falun Gong practitioners throughout Australia hold activities to raise awareness about Falun Gong and the persecution of the practice in communist China. One event venue has been the popular tourist attraction in Sydney, Mrs. Macquarie’s Chair. Due to its scenic location overlooking Sydney Harbour many tourists from other countries, including Chinese tourists, visit …
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Falun Gong practitioners were invited to participate in the Lunar New Year Festival held in Hurstville, Australia, on February 2, 2019. The suburb, a thirty minute drive from the Sydney CBD, is home to the largest Chinese community in Australia. More than half of the 30,000-strong population are Chinese. Nine practitioners demonstrated the five sets …
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Interest in learning the Falun Dafa exercises is on the increase as more people learn of Falun Dafa’s benefits. Practitioners in Sydney held two free Falun Dafa exercise instruction sessions in Sydney communities in November and December 2018. People of different ethnicities enjoyed learning the exercises. Most attendees learned all five exercises as said that …
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Falun Gong practitioners in various parts of China were arrested and recently detained. Some of them are friends and relatives of Australian citizens. Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference outside the Sydney Chinese Consulate office on the afternoon of December 17, 2018, calling for the unconditional release of all Falun Gong practitioners illegally detained …
