That reminds me of a story that kind of concerns all 4 of us loosely:

Our intelligence agency in the US built Pine Gap, a spy facility in the middle of the Australian desert to keep an eye out from the other side of the world.

When newly appointed Prime Minister Whitlam took offense to having US spies on home soil and began paperwork to removing it. He was promptly removed from office.

By official accounts, it was all decided by Australian government-general Kerr in a surprise power play internally.

However it’s implied heavily, that the CIA found out and reached out to the UK’s MI5. The MI5 then provided explicit instructions in a strongly worded letter forcing the re-election.

It’s referred to as the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also called the Dismissal.

I believe the unofficial story to be the most credible, because referred to by Australian Labor Party and former Member of the House of Representatives Peter Staples as "the most blatant act of external interference in Australia's affairs and its autonomy as a nation and a democracy"

Moral of the story: US, UK, Australia, we’re not so separated as we like to believe.