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Walking away from the United States alliance could force Australia to ramp up defence spending by tens of billions of dollars, Australia's former defence chief Sir Angus Houston says, February 21, 2017.
Source: ABC News | Duration: 57sec
Topics: defence-and-national-security, donald-trump, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, australia, united-states
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