Australia: Introducing Falun Dafa at "Relay for Life" Event Held by Cancer Research Committee in Sydney

From 10:00 a.m. on May 10 to May 11, 2003, a "Relay for Life" Event organised by Sydney Cancer Research Committee was held in Rofe Park, Hornsby Heights, North Sydney, Australia. By invitation of a sponsor and provincial MP, Sydney Falun Gong practitioners participated in this community activity. Falun Gong practitioners and local people walked or jogged along the relay route. At noon to 1:30 p.m., the practitioners gave a 40-minute performance on the stage including exercise demonstration, and Chinese Tang Dynasty Costume performance. A Western practitioner by the name of Games who is also a former cancer patient, shared his benefits from Falun Dafa, and his personal miraculous experience of having his cancer cured without medical treatment.

Exercise demonstration	Chinese Tang Dynasty costume performance

Falun Gong booth

Participating in walking

People were amazed by the practitioners' wonderful performances. They stayed behind and had conversations with practitioners after the performances were over.

A Western elderly man came to our booth and said to practitioners, "Wonderful, I've been to many places in the world, but I have never seen such beautiful costume dance performances." Two Western musical instrumental performers came over and expressed their great interest in learning to practise Falun Gong, and decided to join their local practise site to learn Falun Gong after they returned home. They asked practitioners to tell them why such a good practise was not accepted by the Chinese people? The practitioners told them that it is not that the Chinese people do not accept Falun Gong, but just because there are too many people practising Falun Gong, within seven years, more than 100 million people practised it, the number was more than the total members of the ruling Party. Out of excessive selfishness and jealousy, the Jiang regime launched the suppression of Falun Dafa and Dafa practitioners. In the past four years, over 710 cases of Falun Gong practitioners who have been tortured to death have been published.

Hornsby community broadcasting station conducted a 24-hour live report on the activity, and over 100,000 people viewed it.