Australia’s ambassador to Burma (also known as Myanmar) has spoken with Sean Turnell, the detained economics adviser to the deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Foreign Minister Marise Payne says. “Our ambassador and professor Turnell discussed his health, welfare and the conditions in which he is being detained,” Senator Payne said in a statement on Thursday. “We continue to call for Professor Turnell’s immediate release, and for his rights and welfare to be upheld, Payne said. “We are pressing the Myanmar authorities for regular consular access to Professor Turnell.” Turnell, a highly regarded academic from Sydney’s Macquarie University, is the director of the Myanmar Development Institute in the current capital Naypyitaw and has served as an advisor to Suu Kyi since December. Turnell said on Saturday he was being detained, in the first known arrest of a foreign citizen since the Feb. 1 military coup. “I guess you will soon …