Following the arrest of an Australian advisor to Aung San Suu Kyi by the Burma (also known as Myanmar) military junta, former foreign minister Alexander Downer believes there is little the Australian government can do to secure his release. Sean Turnell, a professor of economics from Macquarie University in Sydney, was the first foreign national confirmed arrested after the military coup occurred on Feb.1. Downer said the current foreign affairs minister Marise Payne would be making representations to the junta.  However, it wouldn’t be easy. “It’s not easy to make representations to the Myanmar military, I know from experience,” Downer told the ABC. “I think we would have almost no leverage,” he said. “It would depend on personal relationships that the ambassador has developed, and other staff in the Australian Embassy.” Turnell is a director of the Myanmar Development Institute and has served as special consultant to Aung San Suu …