EXCERPT:
MORRISON: "I've always been supportive right from the outset and was criticized heavily — I stress 'heavily' — mocked, in fact, by the Labor Party for saying that WHO should have those powers and those authorities to be able to go and deal with pandemic situations, because we all know what happened at the start of this pandemic. Well, the problem is, we don’t know what happened at the start of this pandemic, and I was the one calling to ensure that we had an independent process to understand what happened so it couldn’t be repeated. So I’ve been in the vanguard of those moves internationally to ensure that there is greater protection for world health, to ensure that to those world health authorities can come and understand what’s going on and be able to assist countries to be able to prevent the spread and outbreak of major infectious diseases. Now, we will look at the text of all of that, but we have been amongst the countries that have been positive about these sorts of changes. We have to look closely at what the details are in these things, as you always must, but the idea that countries can just say, 'No, you can’t come in and have a look at a pandemic that’s about to break out and actually affect the public health and economy of the entire world, as we saw with this pandemic, then I think it’s only sensible that that’s an area of international cooperation that is very, very important, and I’ve been consistent on that. And remember, the Labor Party mocked me for saying that that was a good idea."