⚠️ The International Pandemic Treaty has no authority over our legal system.

❇️ A number of people have asked about the International Pandemic Treaty.

This video sums it up well. It’s important to read into topics before reacting and falling into a state of fear.

Here is the description that was included on the original instagram post: https://instagram.com/lolmillvsgovt?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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The International Pandemic Treaty has no authority over our legal system.

-A treaty is an agreement/an intention to abide by a guideline, it is not legislation and still isn’t even if it’s ratified.

-No legislation even if amended to include piece of the treat through our parliamentary process is allowed to invalidate our constitutional rights in any permanent* sense. Public health orders are only allowed to temporarily override them as it stands now.

-As a starting point treaties (when ratified, which Australia has a history of being too lazy to do) would be introduced to amend or create new legislation at either* a state or federal level and need to go through the usual democratic process in order to take effect. These changes are not allowed to conflict with our constitution and we have legislative bodies in place to ensure legislation abides by current constitutional human rights law.

-Even if elements of the treaty make it into state law it doesn’t change federal, and vice versa. Synchronicity between the states and or federal is highly unlikely.

-The whole country needs to vote and win a referendum to agree to change our constitutional rights. They are rock solid and immune from international interference.

-International bodies have no authority to invalidate our constitutional rights or dictate how our country behaves, and no authority is able to be signed away without lengthy time and overwhelming majority of the country agreeing to those terms through our normal democratic processes.

This treaty will be no more than a recommendation in 2024 when it is put forward into existence.
Even then, I would not be surprised if Australia doesn’t bother to ratify it, and if we did, I’d imagine the people would contest it every step of the way and it would be scrapped or amended in our parliament if it were to AT ALL conflict with our human rights.

Any official process to change the constitution permanently for a negative outcome is HIGHLY unlikely at any stage.