ANZUS

Navy vessels and led New Zealand to be frozen out of ANZUS, the military alliance with Australia and the United States.

I didn’t solely base my case on our hundred years of mateship, or the Anzus alliance.

The prime minister told 3AW last week that “if there is an attack on the US, the Anzus treaty would be invoked” and Australia would come to the aid of the United States.

Australia would honour its commitment under the 1951 Anzus Treat, he said, "as America would come to our aid if we were attacked".

Australians were stunned, not by the political humiliation or even the refugee question, but by the military implications for ANZUS, the decades-old defense treaty.