Ralph Babet (Victoria, United Australia Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This government has betrayed our nation. How? By refusing to reject the WHO's international health regulations amendments just last week. In doing so, what have they done? They have jeopardised our sovereignty, ceding key decisions for our nation to unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracies—namely, the WHO—who have no allegiance to the Australian people whatsoever. These amendments that have just passed grant the WHO sweeping authority to dictate our national response to so-called health emergencies. Lockdowns, border closures, travel bans, forced masking, fast-tracked injections—whatever the WHO declares, we are expected to obey. That is not democracy; that's dictatorship wrapped in a white coat. That's what it is. After everything that we Australians went through during the botched COVID response, why on earth would we hand over more power to such a foreign body?

Robert F Kennedy Jr has warned that these changes lay the foundation for a global medical surveillance regime. That is not speculation; it's spelled out in the text. Yet this government has signed us up without consultation, without debate and without consent. Is it shocking? Not really. North Korea—yes, North Korea—sits on the WHO's executive board. It's no wonder that the US has just rejected the amendments outright. So why is Australia so eager to be controlled? Why? It's time to keep our country safe, and we don't need Geneva to tell us what to do. We can do it ourselves. (Time expired)