On the 19th of July 2025, approximately 3 days from now, the world will change

because that’s the deadline for Australia to object to and withdraw from the upcoming amendments to the International Health Regulations.

But as I’ll explain in this video, what makes these regulations so dangerous is not that they hand Australian sovereignty over to the UN and to the WHO. It’s that they don’t have to.

See, these new regulations create a raft of new obligations for Australia, including creating an international health regulations authority in Australia to monitor and report on our compliance with the IHRs. But the World Health Organization insists that there’s nothing mandatory or binding about these regulations and that in fact the WHO-well, they’re at such pains to insist that these IHRs are completely non-binding and that anyone who says otherwise is just a crazy conspiracy theorist that it leads me to a question.

If it’s true that these amendments to the international health regulations are so optional, so non-binding that it’s purely about sharing information and listening to advice and recommendations which we are not obliged to act on. If all of these regulations and treaties really do nothing mandatory, then what are we signing? Why are we signing at all? If it’s just about recommendations and advice and our national government will at all times retain their sovereignty to choose what advice to take and what recommendations to implement, what’s to sign?

Or is the truth that these regulations and treaties are really there to provide cover for our own government so that they can ram whatever they like down our throats in the name of complying with these voluntary agreements? Is the real danger not that they give the UN more power, but that they don’t have to. Because our government doesn’t need to be forced into compliance. Rather, our government just wants to protect itself from the consequences of doing what the UN already wants them to do.

My name’s Topher Field, and I guess you’d have to call me one of those crazy conspiracy theorist types. You know, the ones—those crazy people that said that Covid was mostly a danger to the elderly and that younger, healthier people were at minimal risk from it. You know, the crazy ones who said that lockdowns would do more harm than good. The crazy ones that said that lockdowns, border closures, Melbourne’s ring of steel with its papers-please military checkpoints, the banning of peaceful protest, and the gleefully over-the-top enforcement from Victoria Police were all human rights abuses.

You know, those crazy conspiracy theorists who said that the jabs hadn’t been properly tested and that we really had no idea if they were actually safe or actually effective and that in any case they should never have been made mandatory. You know, I’m one of those crazy people. I’m like that crazy uncle that we all have, the one that we’re scared of when we’re kids, but then the older we get, they start to sound a lot less crazy. Yeah, I’m that guy.

The funny thing about me is that when I’m wrong, and it does happen from time to time, it’s rarely because I went too far, but because I didn’t go far enough. I’ve been wrong a few times over the last 16 years that I’ve been a political commentator. And it’s almost always been because I was not conspiratorial enough.

So when I say to you that these World Health Organization international health regulation amendments and the pandemic treaty that accompanies them give the director general of the World Health Organization way, way more power than they’re letting on—it’s just by a slightly different mechanism to the one that you think—then I suggest you take it seriously.

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Okay, these amendments to the international health regulations aren’t happening in isolation. They need to be looked at in conjunction with the pandemic treaty which was adopted in May of this year. And just like the IHRs, the pandemic treaty is voluntary. There’s nothing mandatory about any of this. In fact, if you claim that there’s anything mandatory about the IHRs or the pandemic treaty, then you’ll get fact-checked by DW or by factcheck.org or by a plethora of other arbiters of truth. Yeah, cuz that whole factchecking thing worked so well during Covid, didn’t it?

In the official literature from the UN and the WHO, you’ll see time and time again that they protest that this isn’t mandatory. It’s all voluntary. It’s about national preparedness and information sharing. Which does bring me back to my question. What are we signing? Why are we signing?

We can get ourselves prepared if we want to. We can share information if we want to. We can listen to recommendations if we want to. If none of that is binding, then what are we signing? And the answer is we are signing up to provide cover for our own government.

You have to understand that the number one priority of any bureaucracy—and especially any bureaucracy that wants power or wants to abuse its power—is to avoid accountability.

Have you ever noticed that when it comes to the crimes of government, no one is ever responsible? Everyone can point to everyone else. And they, well, they were just doing their jobs. But then again, when you look at the person that they’re pointing to, well, they were just doing their jobs as well.

The purpose of the revised IHRs and the pandemic treaty isn’t to force the government to do what the WHO wants them to do. It’s to give them cover, the appearance of innocence while our government does what it wants to do, which happens to be the same as what the WHO wants.

The WHO doesn’t want the power to impose lockdowns and jab mandates and digital ID onto Australians. They don’t want that power because they know we already have a government which is gleefully willing to do all of those things without the WHO having to tell them. That’s what we saw during CO.

What these IHRs and the pandemic treaty do in practice is they give our government something to point at while our government imposes lockdowns and jab mandates and digital ID. And our government can now say, “Well, we’re just fulfilling our obligations under international agreements. You wouldn’t want Australia to break its international agreements, would you? That would hurt our reputation, our standing on the global stage.” You ever heard nonsense like that before? Of course you have.

It’s one of their favorite things to do. It’s basically the political equivalent of, “Oh, don’t look at me. It’s their fault. I’m just fulfilling my obligations. I’m so virtuous. I’m the good guy here. You should look over there.” And the key here, the trick, the armor I guess that is used by bureaucracies at all levels from the HR department at your employer to the global technocrats at the UN is to ensure that everyone involved can point at everyone else involved.

So if you try and follow the fingers of blame, you find yourself running around in a circle getting dizzy because everyone is able to point at everyone else. By signing up to these non-binding agreements that only impose on us the obligation for national preparedness, the UN and the WHO can absolve themselves of any responsibility for the specifics of what any given country does. Oh, it wasn’t us that imposed those lockdowns. We just declared a pandemic and gave an advisory. It was entirely up to the national government what they decided to do with that information.

Meanwhile, the national government—the one that imposes the lockdowns—will be saying, “Oh, well, we had to do that. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have been fulfilling our obligations under the international health regulations and the pandemic treaty, and we would have been in breach of international law.” Everyone can point at everyone else. And this is the game.

Oh, it’s not binding. It’s not mandatory. It’s just about making sure that your national government is properly prepared. Sure. But by making sure that our national government is properly prepared, they actually mean giving our national government something to point at, an excuse, a red herring, a misdirection that means that whatever they do, it’s not their fault. And in fact, no one’s at fault. It just kind of happens.

This is the swamp, an intentionally murky and opaque world that is intentionally hostile and confusing to outsiders. A place where you’ll never get more than a glimpse of what is really going on deep in the depths. A place where anyone that dives in looking for answers is doomed to lose their soul if not their mind.

What’s dangerous about these amended IFRs and the Associated Pandemic Treaty isn’t so much that they hand power to the World Health Organization. It’s that they don’t have to. Because our own government already wants to do all of the things—the lockdowns, the digital ID, the jab mandates, the health passports. The WHO doesn’t need the power to make any of that mandatory in Australia because our government in Australia—all in fact almost all the politicians in all of our major parties—they’re already on side. They’re more than happy to implement and enforce all of that without the WHO having to make them do it.

But what they needed was cover, a way for them to enforce these human rights abuses, which they know will be unpopular because they were unpopular last time. And now they can do it while pointing over there. It’s not us. We’re just doing what we have to do under the International Agreement for National Preparedness.

What’s scary about these new treaties and regulations isn’t that they’re binding, it’s that they don’t need to be.

Now, there are petitions you can sign in opposition to the IHRs, and you can email Mark Butler and tell him that he should withdraw. You can do all of those things, but I’m sorry, that’s not the solution here because Mark Butler, he wants this. The Liberal Party, Labor Party, Greens, and yes, most of the members of the Nationals too, they want this because this is how the swamp operates. This is how they protect themselves.

This provides them with yet another layer of protection when they use and abuse their power in some way in the future. I’m sorry to be the voice of gloom, but Australia is not going to withdraw from this agreement. It is not in the interests of any of our major party politicians to oppose this.

In fact, it’s one of the perverse incentives of politics to actually support this and to look for ever new and more creative ways to add ever more layers upon layers of bureaucracy, agreements, treaties, and an interlocking web of regulations from international, national, state, and local levels. Because the more layers there are, the more complex this labyrinth, the more impossible the Gordian knot, the murkier the swamp, the more protected they become.

These people won’t stop until we the people stop them. This is what came into sharp focus for me during co and it’s why I went from being a goody two shoes law-abiding suckup to being on the front lines of the protests against Premier Daniel Andrews and his lockdowns and today being one of the most loudmouths in Australia in vocal opposition to government abuse and overreach.

This is why I adopted this as a way of life—that good people break bad laws. And it’s why I wrote my first book by the same name. Now, I want to read you a brief excerpt from chapter 4, the limits of our obedience, starting on page 33 of my book, Good People Break Bad Laws:

The purpose of civil disobedience, of good people breaking bad laws, is to limit the power of government by limiting our obedience to it. Specifically, to limit our obedience to only the areas where the government is legitimate and to disobey when and where the government exceeds its legitimate authority. In fact, if you look at history, the only thing that has ever actually limited the power of government is the limits of the people’s obedience.
I’ll phrase it another way because this is the most important concept in this book. The only limit that limits government is the limit of our obedience. And every other attempt to limit government is doomed to fail from the start, we know because we’ve tried them all.

My hope is that thanks to things like these international health regulations and the pandemic treaty and thanks to the increasingly obvious fact that our government and politicians and bureaucrats just do whatever the hell they like without caring about what’s right or whether they actually have the power to do it.

My hope is that this will become the catalyst for my fellow Australians and indeed for people around the world to begin to think about and to discuss and ultimately to act on this simple but vitally important question.

What is the limit of your obedience? And if you haven’t reached it yet, are you sure that you have one or are you going to obey all the way into oblivion? Because if history is our guide, we know for certain that you should have reached your limit by now. And if these new regulations say anything at all, it’s that history is going to repeat itself and perhaps sooner than we might like.

This is the Topher project. And if you need a catalyst, a handbook to help you to dive deeper into the nature of law, government, obedience, and right and wrong, then grab a copy of my first and bestselling book, Good People Break Bad Laws. It’s about civil disobedience in the modern age and the fact that ultimately the power is in our hands. But we need to have the courage to use that power and the wisdom to know how.

You’ll find this as well as my second book about the theology of civil disobedience from a Christian perspective along with my DVD of Battleground Melbourne if you’d like to know more about my story and the story of my fellow Victorians as we stood up against co tyranny. And you’ll also find all my merch with a range of different designs.

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