• lockdowns and curfews

• small business closures and job losses
• huge payments to overseas agencies
• depressed economy

• imposed isolation
• inability to visit family, friends and loved ones, attend weddings, funerals etc
• increased domestic violence
• damage to interpersonal relationships, impeding everything from children’s social development to seniors’ protection against dementia

• increased depression, loneliness, anxiety and suicide

• inside Australia and overseas

• school closures
• reduced tuition and poorer academic achievement
• some students disadvantaged by online learning
• HSC students unable to sit exams

• inability to make own decisions about health, removing bodily autonomy
• dictation of “one size fits all” medical interventions

• preventing sharing information the government doesn’t approve of (“misinformation”)

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There is no better time to make your views heard than before a federal election and here’s the most effective way to go about it.

Before your visit

Write a letter to your MP (or Senator or election candidate). To help with this, we’ve provided:

• Tips for writing your letter
• A letter template
• Ten reasons why Australia MUST cancel its treaties with the WHO
• You can post your letter (which is far more effective than emailing it) but most effective is to talk to your MP/Senator or election candidate in person.
• Make an appointment to see your MP/Senator or election candidate

At your MP’s (or Senator’s or election candidate’s or WHIP’s or Shadow Minister’s) office

• Ask for your letter to be receipted and keep a copy for yourself.
• Hand your MP (or Senator or election candidate) your letter and a copy of the 10 Reasons why Australia MUST cancel its treaties with the WHO.
• Then open your laptop and show your MP the 7-minute talk by lawyer Libby Klein on the treaties and how they will affect Australians.
• Ask your MP to take your concerns back to the party room, especially if he/she votes along party lines.

There’s every chance your MP (or Senator or election candidate) will know far more when you leave the office than he or she did before you arrived.

Encourage other people in your family or neighbourhood to write letters and to visit politicians and candidates, too.

Our Community page has links to Federal, State and Territory MP's.

• Let them know you’re concerned that there are new treaties coming into force that will cause problems for everyone.
• Mention a few of the points in How will the IHR's and Pandemic Treaty affect Australians?
• It’s important that our government stops this from happening.
• Let people know that they can find out more on this website: https://australiaexitsthewho.com/we-say-no/

<insert address>

<insert today’s date>

Dear <insert name of your MP/Senator/candidate etc>

2024 Amendments to International Health Regulations (2005) (IHRs)

I am writing to you as my local Member of Parliament/Senator/a candidate for this electorate.

I wish to bring to your attention the serious consequences that will result from provisions in the IHRs which will come into force on the 19th of September 2025, unless the Australian government rejects them by the 19th of July 2025.

The IHRs empower the Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic, even with no evidence of an actual emergency. This will activate emergency laws in Australia that grant extraordinary power to health bureaucrats cement the WHO’s power and influence at the expense of Australians.

It will damage the social, economic and material health of Australians and destroy our democratic freedom.

Why the WHO should not control Australians’ health

The WHO’s pandemic management strategy, as outlined in the IHRs, has been shown to be a failure.

The report of the US ‘Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’, following a two-year investigation concluded that: [i]

• ‘The WHO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was an abject failure because it caved to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party and placed China’s political interests ahead of its international duties. Further, the WHO’s newest effort to solve the problems exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic — via a “Pandemic Treaty” — may harm the United States.’
• ‘Contrary to what was promised, the COVID-19 vaccine did not stop the spread or transmission of the virus.’
• ‘Public health officials engaged in a coordinated effort to ignore natural immunity — which is acquired through previous COVID-19 infection — when developing vaccine guidance and mandates.’

What the Treaties will enable the WHO to do

The IHRs empower the WHO to declare an emergency, even where there is not a single human death from a disease, with little or no evidence of an actual emergency, and even if this is against the advice of its own expert committee.

The WHO will then issue recommendations for dealing with the so-called emergency and expect the world to follow.

In supporting the IHRs, the federal government is flagging Australia’s intention to willingly follow the WHO’s lead, reducing Australian decision-makers to little more than rubber stamps.

With the WHO warning of more public health emergencies, and its greater influence as a result of these treaties, we can expect more lockdowns and other extreme measures, resulting in:

• small business closures, leading to job losses and financial distress
• social isolation, leading to an increase in mental health problems such as loneliness, depression, suicide and domestic violence
• travel restrictions and increased surveillance
• school closures, resulting in less class time, lower academic performance and social isolation of children
• imposition of pharmaceutical health interventions, whether or not they have been successfully trialled, whether or not they are effective, whether or not there are better alternatives and whether or not people want them.

Beneficiaries of the WHO treaties

The WHO is not an independent health authority and derives more than 80% of its funding from non-member states. It encourages investment and promises healthy returns and its investors can specify how the WHO is to use its funds.

The provisions in these documents benefit the pharmaceutical industry far more than they benefit Australians.

Please take action

I urge you to take urgent action to reject the IHRs before the 19th of July 2025 deadline.

I further urge you to oppose the WHO’s proposed Pandemic Agreement which the Australian Government has also been considering. Please be advised that I will not be voting for any candidate who does not speak up in opposition to these treaties.

Please find enclosed, 10 reasons why Australia MUST cancel its treaties with the WHO.

Thank you for your attention to this important message. I look forward to receiving your response.

Yours faithfully

<insert signature>

<insert name>

[i] ‘After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward’ which can be found here: https://oversight.house.gov/report/after-action-review-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-the-lessons-learned-and-a-path-forward/ 

Social media is a great tool for sharing information. So why not share information about this issue with your social media networks?

• See tips for engaging on social media here.
• Send your friends tiles and the radio files that you can download here.
• Send your friends the 7-minute talk by lawyer, Libby Klein here.

Make arrangements to talk to your local churches, chambers of commerce, P&Cs, Amnesty International groups, cultural groups, playgroups, garden groups etc. Your council will have a list of local community groups.

You can download a PowerPoint talk, by lawyer Libby Klein, in PDF format below.

What's all this about the WHO?

Write a submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCT). This is a parliamentary committee which reviews and reports on all treaty actions proposed by the Government before action is taken which binds Australia to the terms of the treaty.

Watch the video – How to write a JSCT Submission – Step by Step Guide.

Submissions close 23 January 2025.

New treaties supported by the Australian government will negatively impact our lives.

These two documents are called the 2024 International Health Regulations and the Pandemic Agreement and will cause:

Physical harm

• lockdowns and curfews

Financial harm

• small business closures and job losses
• huge payments to overseas agencies
• depressed economy

Social harm

• imposed isolation
• inability to visit family, friends and loved ones, attend weddings, funerals etc
• increased domestic violence
• damage to interpersonal relationships, impeding everything from children’s social development to seniors’ protection against dementia

Mental health problems

• increased depression, loneliness, anxiety and suicide

Travel restrictions

• inside Australia and overseas

Educational problems

• school closures
• reduced tuition and poorer academic achievement
• some students disadvantaged by online learning
• HSC students unable to sit exams

Health and well-being

• inability to make own decisions about health, removing bodily autonomy
• dictation of “one size fits all” medical interventions

Freedom of thought and expression

• prevention from sharing information the government doesn’t approve of (“misinformation”)

Australia must not let overseas bureaucrats, acting for big business, ruin our lives.

1. Health Minister Butler’s endorsement of the WHO’s 2024 International Health Regulations (IHRs) and his support of the Pandemic Agreement is inappropriate because:
   • consultation with Australians about these documents has been woefully inadequate
   • nevertheless, many Australians objected to the treaties
   • 14 members of parliament objected to the treaties
   • Australian politicians and agencies were not given 4 months to consider the finished wording of the IHRs and their implications for Australia, as required under international law
   • to consider the finished wording of the IHRs and their implications for Australia.
2. The treaties will cost Australia billions of dollars annually.
3. The treaties empower the Director of the WHO to declare a pandemic, even with no evidence of an actual emergency. This leads to the activation of emergency laws in Australia that grant extraordinary power to health bureaucrats at the expense of normal democratic processes.
4. Emergency powers will enable our politicians and public agencies to follow the WHO’s lead and restrict Australians’ freedom by:
   • imposing lockdowns
   • enforcing travel restrictions
   • censoring scientific debate
   • incarcerating Australians
   • imposing medical treatments on Australians, or
   • implementing any other measure the WHO deems appropriate.
5. The WHO’s approach to pandemic management in the Covid-19 epidemic – featuring lockdowns, masks, and travel restrictions – was grossly flawed.
6. Implementing the WHO’s approach to pandemic management in the Covid-19 epidemic created an economic and humanitarian crisis in Australia.
7. The WHO is neither an independent nor an impartial body, and as such it is unfit to make decisions about health.
8. The WHO is indemnified from liability for harm, further disqualifying it from making decisions about health.
9. These treaties have ongoing application and lengthy withdrawal periods, making them very difficult to get out of once we are committed.
10. The treaties establish a mechanism whereby we would be giving the WHO an alarming degree of undue influence over the Australian government and its people.

Download 10 Reasons why with references for MPs

Download a 1-Pager - 10 Reasons why

Social media is a very effective vehicle for sharing information that many of us already use.

To engage people about the WHO treaties and what they mean for Australia, here are some suggestions.

• Think about how you can invite discussion rather than giving information. A good strategy is to ask open questions that invite different views, eg:
  • I’ve received this leaflet in my letterbox. [screenshot] Has anybody else received one, too? What do you think about this?
• Do be respectful. Respond to people as if you were speaking to them face-to-face.
• Do remember many Australians are scarred, disoriented, and anxious because of what has happened over the past few years. Show compassion.
• Don’t come from a place of having all the answers and wanting to give them to people. Better to come from a place of sharing and understanding.
  • I see what you mean. But have you thought about…
• Try to keep the conversation going.
• Don’t give anyone the excuse to censor you.

Insert your address and today’s date

Dear <insert name of your MP/senator/candidate etc>

Let them know you are a voter in this electorate.

Tell them that you are concerned about the consequences of two documents that, if they come into force in Australia, will severely affect our health, our economy and our democratic rights.

These are:

• the 2024 International Health Regulations (2024 IHRs); and
• the proposed Pandemic Agreement.

Explain that the 2024 International Health Regulations were approved by Minister Mark Butler and are due to come into effect on the 19th of September 2025, unless the Australian government rejects them by the 19th of July 2025.

Say that you are also concerned that Minister Butler may sign a proposed Pandemic Agreement.

Explain that these documents, once implemented in Australia, will create enormous hardship for Australians and have the potential to destroy life in this country as we know it, whenever the WHO deems a “health” emergency or potential health emergency, warrants its intervention.

Say that the provisions of these documents do not benefit Australians, but they do benefit Big Business.

You can refer them to the report of the US ‘Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’, following a two-year investigation that concluded that:

• ‘The WHO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was an abject failure because it caved to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party and placed China’s political interests ahead of its international duties. Further, the WHO’s newest effort to solve the problems exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic — via a “Pandemic Treaty” — may harm the United States.’
• ‘Contrary to what was promised, the COVID-19 vaccine did not stop the spread or transmission of the virus.’
• ‘Public health officials engaged in a coordinated effort to ignore natural immunity — which is acquired through previous COVID-19 infection — when developing vaccine guidance and mandates.’
• Ask your MP to stop this from happening. Say that you will not be voting for any candidate who does not oppose these documents.

Enclose a copy of 10 Reasons why Australia MUST cancel its treaties with the WHO

Ask for the MP’s office to issue you with a receipt for your letter.

Watch the video How to Write a JSCT Submission - Step by Step Guide

In this video we show you how to write your submission rejecting the 2024 Amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHRs). The submissions are to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCT).