It’s not the job of Australian diplomats to be setting up Papadopoulos by feeding a fake story that Trump is working with the Russians, to entice him to brag about it later.
Your diplomats did try to stab America in the back. Also they are part of the criminal conspiracy known as five eyes.
[Your diplomats did try to stab America in the back. Also they are part of the criminal conspiracy known as five eyes.]
That isn't what happened. Papadopoulous asked for a meeting with the Australian High Commissioner. He told the Australian High Commissioner the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton. The Australian High Commissioner absolutely properly sent a message containing that information to Canberra - that a foreign adversary might be doing something in appropriate with regards to the former Secretary of State of the United States, an ally, and Canberra, quite properly forwarded that information to the counter intelligence service of the United States, which is the FBI.
There's nothing inappropriate about any of that.
When Papadopoulous realised what he'd done, he sought to blame others for his utter stupidity by alleging he was somehow manipulated by Australia into saying something stupid.
Alexander Downer was John Howard's Foreign Minister - Foreign Minister in probably the most conservative, pro-United States government Australia has ever seen. The idea he was involved in some sort of plot like this is absolutely absurd. The only reason it has any credence is that Americans generally don't know who the man they are accusing is and what he's done.