Media Release | One Nation's demand to exit WHO embraced by Trump
Australia should affirm its sovereignty and withdraw its membership of the World Health Organisation following President Donald Trumpโs withdrawal of the United States from the organisation.
One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said her party had been calling for Australia to exit the WHO since 1996, a call now more urgent after revelations of the organisationโs overreaching plans to take over the countryโs health system and dictate Australian health policy.
โThe WHO has been pushing hard for a global pandemic treaty which would enable this unelected international body to effectively take over any Australian response to a future pandemic,โ Senator Hanson said.
โOne Nation wonโt stand for Australia signing over its sovereignty by being party to such an agreement. We have no business being a member of a body that does not recognise the Australian peopleโs ultimate authority over how our country responds to a challenge like COVID-19.
โThe United States under President Trump has recognised its best interests do not lie with the WHO. Australiaโs best interests lie in charting an independent path too โ we can have positive and beneficial diplomatic and trade relationships without unelected international bureaucracies compromising our sovereignty.
โAustralia should review all of its memberships to bodies like the WHO โ including the United Nations. Australia may have been one of its original founding members, but the UN has hopelessly lost its way. Itโs become a platform for abhorrent regimes to claim legitimacy, a forum of hatred for western countries like Australia, and a tacit supporter of international terrorism.
โItโs been said that countries donโt have friends; they have interests. The UNHCR, the UNRWA, the International Criminal Court โ are we a member or a party to these unelected world organisations because it is truly in our nationโs interest?
โI congratulate Mr Trump for leading by example and putting his nationโs interests before all else. One Nation puts Australia and Australians first.โ