Navigating Uncertainty - S2E01 - Australia And The ANZUS Treaty

UNSW Canberra Podcasts

70 years ago, on 1 September 1951, Australia, the United States and New Zealand signed the Australia, NZ, US Security (ANZUS) Treaty. Although New Zealand was suspended from the treaty in 1986, the ANZUS Treaty has been the bedrock of Australian security for seven decades. In this episode of Navigating Uncertainty, Associate Professor David Lee talks to Professor David Lowe, a biographer of Percy Spender, the Australian architect of the treaty. They discuss how and why the treaty came to be signed, its impact on US-Australian relations, and the contemporary challenges facing the treaty partners.