Sixty-two years ago, Australia’s External Affairs Minister Percy Spender, New Zealand’s Foreign Minister F.W. Doidge and Special US Representative John Foster Dulles gathered in Canberra to discuss a draft Japanese peace treaty, which the USA wanted Australia and New Zealand to join, and to discuss the drafting of a tripartite security treaty, which became the ANZUS Treaty. In the opening clause of Article IV of the ANZUS Treaty (“Each Party recognises that an armed attack in the Pacific Area on any of the Parties would be dangerous to its own peace and safety …”), the phrase “dangerous to its own…