In an interview with ABC Radio's The Signal, Ashley Townshend, Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, weighed in on the Australian government's recently announced $270 billion defence strategy.

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It's been 244 years since the Declaration of Independence, but its words and their significance continue to resonate, both in the United States and Australia.

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