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Liberal Senator Eric Abetz has broken party ranks and said he would "support the suspension of funding support" for the World Health Organisation until such time they "reform themselves" and not act as the "ventriloquist doll" of Communist China. Mr Abetz told Sky News host Chris Kenny he would support the suspension knowing "my prime minister and treasurer have spoken against that". President Trump recently suspended funding to the WHO after he accused the “China-centric” body of “severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus”. He said the WHO would lose its $400 million US contribution as he launched an investigation into the organisation’s ties to China. Prime Minister Scott Morrison had recently stated his government will not be following the United States in suspending funding to the organisation. “The WHO does a lot of important work including here in our own regions and the Pacific and we work closely with them," Mr Morrison had said. Mr Abetz said while he supports a suspension of funding for the organisaion, himself, the prime minister and treasurer "are on the same page in relation to accepting fundamental reform has to happen in the World health Organisation". "So we seek the same objective, the only question is how best to achieve it," he said. Image: AP