By George Christensen
Australia may soon be handing the World Health Organization a master key to our laws.
The Albanese Government has tabled its Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC) Bills in parliament. These proposed laws would create a central command agency led by an unelected Director-General who can seize your data, rewrite the rules in a health emergency, and lock Australia into the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty agenda.
### What is the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty?
The WHO’s treaty, also known as the Pandemic Agreement, pushes nations to align laws, share data, and follow WHO directions during crises. The CDC Bills embed the WHO’s One Health model, which stretches public health concerns into climate, food systems, livestock, and land use.
### The CDC: A Trojan Horse?
At first glance, the CDC appears to be a health protection agency, but it effectively smuggles in foreign control and permanent surveillance.
A Senate Committee has been tasked with conducting an inquiry into these bills. Public submissions to the Committee closed on 26 September 2025.
If we do not act now, these bills may quickly pass, becoming law and almost impossible to reverse.
### Reasons to Oppose the CDC Bills
There are many reasons why these CDC Bills should not be passed by Parliament, including:
– **Foreign Control Without a Vote:**
The CDC boss could sign written deals with foreign governments, UN bodies, and public-private partnerships. Since these agreements are not treaties, Parliament would have no vote. This allows WHO policies to arrive through the back door.
– **Data Overrides Despite Other Laws:**
In the case of a declared severe or unforeseen threat, the CDC can authorise the collection and disclosure of relevant information—including sharing data internationally—even where other Australian laws would prohibit this. Your information could cross borders unexpectedly.
– **WHO Plug-In Built Inside the CDC:**
The Bills move Australia’s International Health Regulations (IHR) focal-point role into the CDC. This change locks the agency onto WHO timelines and notifications, reducing ministerial and parliamentary oversight when Geneva declares a crisis.
– **Mission Creep by Design:**
The One Health approach expands the concept of health to include climate effects, land use, wildlife, livestock, food standards, and urban planning. For example, a climate event or livestock issue could justify new directives affecting your farm, business, church, or children’s school.
– **Secrecy When Scrutiny Is Needed Most:**
While the CDC must publish some advice, wide exemptions and secrecy offences mean that the most controversial directions, declarations, and foreign arrangements can be withheld from public view.
– **Compulsion Powers and Penalties:**
Individuals and businesses can be compelled to hand over data, facing civil penalties for refusal. This establishes an architecture for permanent centralised surveillance that can be activated at any future declaration.
### What Does This Mean for Australians?
At its core, the CDC Bill removes power from Australians and hands it to unelected bureaucrats and foreign bodies. It strips Parliament of control, erases safeguards on data and privacy, and opens the door for the WHO to dictate what happens in our homes, farms, and daily lives.
### Why Should You Care?
You might be wondering why politicians would listen to public concerns. The truth is politicians fear numbers. Senate committees first log submission volumes, then read the details. Marginal-seat MPs know mandates, censorship, and overreach cost votes.
A surge of submissions and signatures can make this Bill politically radioactive. When the numbers spike, media silence breaks, talkback radio lights up, and MPs reconsider their stance.
We have successfully opposed overreach before — we can do it again by making the political cost obvious and immediate.
### What Happens If We Win? What Happens If We Lose?
– **If We Win:**
The Committee recommends against the Bills, Parliament shelves the CDC plan, and Australia retains democratic control over health policy, data, and international commitments. Informed consent, transparency, and proportionality remain non-negotiable.
– **If We Lose:**
An unelected CDC could trigger restrictions on movement, work, worship, and farming based on WHO timelines, broaden health controls into climate and food domains, and share Australians’ data across borders in the name of safety. Once embedded, such powers will be nearly impossible to repeal. Children may begin to see emergency rule as normal.
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**In solidarity,**
George Christensen and the team at CitizenGO
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**P.S.**
The CDC Bills are the Trojan Horse for the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty in Australia. Stop foreign control and permanent emergency powers at the door.
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### More Information
– [Australian Centre for Disease Control Bill 2025: Bill home page, Parliament of Australia](https://www.aph.gov.au)
– [Australian Centre for Disease Control (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025: Bill home page, Parliament of Australia](https://www.aph.gov.au)
– [Australian Centre for Disease Control Bill 2025 and a related bill: Senate Committee inquiry (submissions close 26 Sept 2025), Parliament of Australia](https://www.aph.gov.au)
– [Second Reading Speeches: Australian Centre for Disease Control (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025, Parliament of Australia (Hansard)](https://www.aph.gov.au)
– [AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL BILL 2025: Full text, AustLII](https://www.austlii.edu.au)
– [AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL 2025: Explanatory Memorandum, AustLII](https://www.austlii.edu.au)
– [Australian CDC legislation: overview and links to Bills, Australian Centre for Disease Control (Australian Government)](https://www.health.gov.au)
– [Delivering on the Australian Centre for Disease Control, Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (Media Release)](https://www.health.gov.au)
– [WHO Pandemic Agreement (A78/10): Draft text, World Health Organization](https://www.who.int)
– [One Health Initiative: WHO, World Health Organization](https://www.who.int)
– [One Health Joint Plan of Action (2022-2026): Full document (PDF), World Health Organization / Quadripartite](https://www.who.int)
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*Stay informed and have your say before it’s too late.*
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