Australia should cut off World Health Organisation cash
STATEMENT
I’m not surprised that I’ve copped flak from the arrogant lefties for my suggestion that Australia should cancel its funding to that useless monstrosity, the World Health Organisation.
Well, they can whinge all they want but I won’t change my position. In fact, I’ll add further to my criticism by calling for the sacking of the Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus along with his equally-inept United Nations buddy, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
If they can’t do these important jobs satisfactorily, then they should be sacked. Simple.
Misinformation and flawed advice from WHO in this China virus crisis have magnified the problem and caused untold unnecessary deaths. It’s inexcusable from an organisation responsible for the health needs of billions of global citizens and gets more than $4-billion in international funding.
As I have said since 1996, the UN is an organisation whose executives seem to do nothing but hold out their hands for money, buy luxury cars, and fly first class around the world. Nothing has changed in this dodgy organisation; in fact, it’s getting worse!
It’s not the first time WHO has stuffed up on such a grand scale. When the Ebola outbreak occurred in Africa in 2013, it took five months to declare an emergency. By then, the disease had spread through several countries and taken many thousands of lives.
It was also WHO that supported the reopening of Wuhan’s wet markets even though Covid-19 continues to cause problems around the world.
Is it smart of Australia to keep handing over millions of dollars as we wait for WHO’s next big failure and massive loss of life? I don’t think so.
WHO was established in 1948 to support and manage initiatives that improve health globally, but it has descended into a farcical, politically-biased and corrupt organisation whose leaders are doing the bidding of dodgy member countries.
WHO today does more harm than good. The millions that Australia contributes annually (about $63m in 2018) should be better spent on initiatives here in Australia that have a direct positive impact for our citizens.
Unfortunately, the incompetence of WHO and its parent the UN is enabled by those who turn a blind eye to the problems – the lefties like Labor and The Greens would rather stick their head in the sand and keep flushing money down the toilet rather than face the facts.
I’ll wait with interest to see how the Liberal and National parties respond to the failures of these organisations.
Let’s actually put Australia first for a change. We should cancel our membership of the UN and the WHO and the time to do it is now!
Senator Pauline Hanson
One Nation Leader
