On April 20-21, 2003, an annual Easter celebration entitled, "Golden Past, Golden Future" was held in Bendigo. Falun Gong won the "Best social group participation" award at the torch lantern festival on April 20, and "Best Theme Presentation" at the parade on April 21.

Local government officials spoke highly of the Falun Dafa group. Federal member Mr. Kerry Barttett said...it is a very important group. [and] has contributed a lot to the local multiple-culture construction.

Williamstown is a famous port located on the west side of Melbourne. Every year the holiday celebration attracts over 100,000 spectators. This year was the third year Dafa practitioners were invited to participate in the parade. Everywhere they went they received warm applause from spectators.

It was cold and windy in Tokyo on December 22, 2002. About two hundred people gathered in a park not far from the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo to protest the proposed Hong Kong Article 23 Legislation. The people included Japanese clerks of companies, students from China and Taiwan, Falun Gong practitioners and other Chinese in Japan.