Anzac – Australia and New Zealand

PMs Malcolm Turnbull and Bill English solemnly assured us of the friendship of Australia and New Zealand during the recent visit of Malcolm to NZ, and I don’t doubt it – after all we are so isolated down here in the “xo/x:o/ of the world ” (thank you Paul Keating) and we do have quite a few things in common, but what I would really like to see is both PMs standing up publicly and inviting the rest of the Pacific Area to join in a strong agreement to trade/defend leaving out the chaotic USA.
If this happened I would be interested in the reaction in the Washington madhouse.
Will it happen? I doubt it but I can but hope – perhaps NZ could inject a bit of individualism, aggression and the much talked about Anzac spirit into such an agreement.