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good relations between China Nine State of Peaceful Reunification of HUMAN RIGHTS AND truly good in human life. If the
and Victoria it’s my sincere MP’s, who had China is one of many overseas POLITICS sole focus is on making money
hope that you will not attend previously branches of the China Council In Australia, human rights are we may end up rationalising
the performance and will also confirmed their for the Promotion of Peaceful a legitimate area of political any behaviour no matter how
avoid any future contact with attendance, then National Reunification, debate, and indeed a current immoral it is, or who is hurt in the
Falun Gong and its affiliates.” cancelled after which was established by the focus with Australia’s bid for a process. Consider the explosion of
receipt of the Chinese Communist Party seat on the UN Human Rights the billion-dollar organ harvesting
In 2010 and 2014 the Chinese Consul General’s Central United Front Work Council in 2018. In China, only and transplant industry in China
Consulate in Sydney issued letter. Department and the Chinese the Communist Party decides under the Chinese Communist
press releases to other Consuls- People’s Political Consultative on matters of politics and Party’s control.
General and NSW MPs titled Conference. labels any group that exposes
Facts about Falun Gong and the its human rights abuses as an If as a nation, Australia
so-called “Shen Yun Performing Most Australians would “anti-China political group.” focuses on an ethical and moral
Arts,” deriding Shen Yun and not realise that the United base for trade, and gives voice to
labelling it a political tool of Front Work Department has a Conflating the Chinese the values of our democracy and
Falun Gong. high place within the Chinese Communist Party with China, way of life, despite protestations
Communist Party hierarchy the nation and the people, is from a foreign power, then
More recently, two Chinese under the Chinese Communist one of the greatest deceptions Australia may prosper on its
Communist Party propaganda Party Central Committee. In the Chinese government own terms.
articles against Shen Yun addition to its role within China has committed against the
appeared in the (paid) it is tasked with developing long-suffering Chinese people. The human rights
China Daily supplement in political and business ties challenges facing Falun Gong
Melbourne’s The Age newspaper overseas, and trying to Falun Gong practitioners practitioners, both in China and
on January 13, 2017. influence foreign nationals to care about the people of China in Australia, are an important
accept the Chinese Communist and the people of Australia. part of the conversation about
PRESSURE BY PROFIT Party’s views. how Australia-China relations
In addition to formal pressure Over the past 18 years, we will develop, and what sort of
from Chinese authorities, the In an article in The have learnt a lot about the future Australians want for
impact of Chinese business Conversation in June this year, machinations of the Chinese their country.
tycoons with reported links to Associate Professor Feng Communist Party, and we are
the Chinese Communist Party Chongyi, of the University of seriously concerned that the John Deller is the Honorary
has been felt since the year 2000. Technology, Sydney, described Australian government has not Secretary of the Falun Dafa
The 2017 Four Corners-Fairfax the united front strategy as fully understood the threat that Association of Australia Inc. For
investigation referred to secret having two parts, “One is accompanies engagement with more information visit:
briefings by ASIO’s Director- unity among friends under the Chinese Communist Party www.falundafa.org
General Duncan Lewis in 2015 the leadership of the Chinese and its envoys. To read the Investigative Report
to senior officials in the Liberal, Communist Party. The other on the Control of Overseas
National and Labor parties, is the life-and-death struggle We acknowledge that Chinese and the Implementation
warning them about accepting against enemies of the state.” in China there are good of Global United Front Strategy
foreign-sourced political people who want to end the by the Chinese Communist
donations. Tragically,peaceful, meditative persecution of Falun Gong. Regime: www.upholdjustice.org/
Falun Gong practitioners have How can Australia help? The node/181
It is well-documented, even been cast as ‘enemies of the state’ same way Australia can help
on Chinese Communist Party under the Chinese Communist protect the people of Australia
websites, that the Australian Party’s campaign to eliminate from a corrupting Chinese
Council for the Promotion them. Communist Party influence.

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