The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. This week’s issue is written by Damien Cave, the Australia bureau chief. ________It’s been called a bromance, but now the world knows what comes with the closeness Scott Morrison has cultivated with Donald J. Trump: requests for help with partisan politics. President Trump personally asked Mr. Morrison last month for Australia to assist an American federal inquiry aimed at discrediting the Mueller investigation into foreign interference in the 2016 election. After our New York Times colleagues broke the news Tuesday, Mr. Morrison confirmed the country’s readiness to “assist and cooperate.”That unleashed anvils of criticism for both Mr. Morrison and Mr. Trump.

Source: International New York Times October 04, 2019 02:37 UTC