Adelaide—Australia, For many who come to see the annual performance of Shen Yun Performing Arts it is like seeing through a window into the traditional culture of China.  For South Australia’s Legislative Council member and political leader, Tammy Franks, it was so much more.
Ms. Franks, who is the parliamentary leader of the South Australian Greens Party attended the Shen Yun Performing Arts performance at the Festival Centre on May 11 and said that the performance showed her the “real culture in China” which she remarked was “so much more than the contemporary, CCP (Chinese Communist Party) government.”
“It is a very sad situation when we see that [real culture] oppressed in various ways and, and people’s history denied,” she said, acknowledging some of the atrocities depicted in the show.