Malcolm Turnbull says his infamous phone call with US president Donald Trump last week has worked in Australia’s favour, because it inspired “dozens and dozens” of US congressmen to publicly support the Australia-US alliance. With the major political parties returning to Canberra this week for the first sitting week of the year, Turnbull said last week’s embarrassing phone call with Donald Trump was not a bad thing. Turnbull tries out shirtfronting Trump as a way to handle the bully-in-chief | Katharine Murphy Read more“We assess all requests for military assistance on their merits,” he told Channel Nine. He said Australia’s military worked very closely with the US military so he would not be caught off-guard by any requests for military help from Trump. Turnbull would not say whether his strong handling of Trump last week had helped to counter the perception that he was a weak leader.

Source: The Guardian February 05, 2017 09:30 UTC