Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

This week the World Health Assembly is meeting for its 74th annual session. This week for the fifth year running one nation, namely the Republic of China-Taiwan, has not been invited. This is the result of the continued belligerent bullying by the Communist Party regime in Beijing.

The subject matter of this week's World Health Assembly is how global nations respond to the pandemic. Yet, we have the irony that the nation that gave us the pandemic from Wuhan, possibly from a biological laboratory in that city, is participating yet refusing the participation of a country which has provided one of the best most-comprehensive results in terms of the way in which it's coped with the virus. This is something—

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