| This resulted in the 1951 ANZUS Pact between Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America. |
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| Australian Prime Minister John Howard also stated that Australia would invoke the ANZUS Treaty along similar lines. |
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| Since 1951, Australia has been a formal military ally of the US, under the ANZUS treaty. |
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| The ANZUS treaty of 1955 linked Australia, New Zealand, and the United States in a defensive alliance, with Britain and the Commonwealth left out. |
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| In 1951 the United Kingdom became increasingly focused on its European interests, while New Zealand joined Australia and the United States in the ANZUS security treaty. |
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