It was the interview that sent out hares running around the world.
One month back, Foreign Minister Marise Payne informed the ABC’s Experts program that Australia would push for an independent global query into the break out of COVID-19
Prime Minister Scott Morrison went a step even more two days later, suggesting that the World Health Company (WHO) required tough new ” weapons inspector” powers to examine what caused the outbreak.
It was political dynamite.
Australia’s buddies and allies in Europe, still desperately scrambling to include the pandemic at home, were startled. Why hadn’t Australia got on the phone prior to wading into such stuffed territory?
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The Chinese Government was– naturally– incensed, implicating Australia of launching a political attack on China and “pandering” to the United States.
The furore intensified after China’s ambassador countered by warning of a consumer boycott, and it was turbo charged by China’s choice to hit Australian exports of beef, and lock in tariffs on barley
But one month after that first interview, the Morrison Government has actually now emerged battered and bloodied from the diplomatic fray, clutching a paper, and declaring victory.
Last night the World Health Assembly (WHA) passed a European Union motion calling for a “detailed, independent and objective” examination into how the pandemic started and the global health response.
A record 137 countries– including both Australia and China– wound up co-sponsoring the movement, offering it over