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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Christopher Knaus

United Australia party and Coalition MPs denounced for ‘totally misleading’ claim about WHO

United Australia party leader Clive Palmer.
Two days out from the 2022 federal election, Clive Palmer’s United Australia party has run full-page print advertisements perpetuating a baseless claim about the WHO. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

Experts have denounced a “totally misleading” claim perpetuated by government MPs and the United Australia party that the World Health Organization will use a possible pandemic treaty to control Australia’s health system, including to arbitrarily impose lockdowns.

Political parties and candidates, as of Wednesday, are barred from running election ads on broadcast mediums but not on social media and in print, an inequity that experts have repeatedly urged government to fix.

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