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Calling the tune

Within the neo-Roman splendour of Wall Street’s Cipriani Club, 80-year-old Dionne Warwick, in shimmering black, launched into her 1985 cover hit, That’s What Friends Are For.

Before her sat 500 Australian and American politicians, diplomats, spies, tycoons and generals. The late-September occasion marked the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Anzus Treaty – the post-war defence pact that once bound

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