A Time to Reflect: Shadow Minister Speaks Out on 25-Year Communist Oppression

Published on April 24, 2024

Australia’s shadow multicultural affairs minister has called on the Albanese Labor government to keep pressing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on human rights issues. Liberal Senator Paul Scarr’s comments come as adherents of the persecuted spiritual meditation practice Falun Gong gear up for April 25—a significant date not only for the Chinese community, but also for Australians everywhere who will commemorate Anzac Day. On April 25, 1999, over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners in China gathered to peacefully protest at the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership’s headquarters in Zhongnanhai. The rally was held in response to an incident days earlier, when Falun Gong adherents visited the Tianjin College of Education to speak with authorities about a magazine article slandering the meditation practice....