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> Australia has dropped its opposition to a landmark treaty banning nuclear weapons in a vote at the United Nations in New York on Saturday.

> The Nobel peace prize-winning International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons had been urging Australia to vote in favour of the UN resolution on Saturday - or at least abstain in order to "End five years of opposition to the TPNW under the previous government".

> Wong told the UN general assembly last month that Australia would "Redouble our efforts" towards disarmament because Russian president Vladimir Putin's "Weak and desperate nuclear threats underline the danger that nuclear weapons pose to us all".

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