David Wroe is national security correspondent for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald in Canberra.
Australian and American officials spent Friday scrambling to shore up the US refugee swap deal - and repair damage to the alliance relationship - amid signs that Donald Trump will likely follow through on the agreement with Malcolm Turnbull.
Without an iota of consideration for allies, the President will dump on anyone he likes to please his domestic Twitter audience.
President Donald Trump has thrown the US-Australia refugee deal into grave doubt with a single post on Twitter.
The preferential "exemption" for Australian dual nationals turns out not to be an exemption at all.
Julie Bishop wants Australia to be given the same special treatment extended to Canada and the United Kingdom.
"It's not my job as Prime Minister of Australia to run a commentary on the domestic policies of other countries".
Details of who will be resettled in the US remain unclear.
Malcolm Turnbull and Donald Trump discussed the Australia-US relationship as "critical for peace, stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region and globally", on Sunday morning.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has called on Donald Trump to deepen rather than reduce US leadership in Asia in a speech that underscores Australian concern about the potential for the new President's isolationist leanings.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has acknowledged foreign agents may be trying to gather compromising material on individual Australian politicians through cyber attacks, while a Labor MP has said parliamentarians themselves are the "weakest link".
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