Another member of Tony Abbott's inner sanctum is set to deliver a speech on Australia's national security position to a Washington think tank.
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A week after former defence minister Kevin Andrews skipped Parliament to speak to a right-wing lobby group on Australia's defence challenges and 10 days after the former prime minister addressed a conservative Christian group in New York, Mr Abbott's former national security adviser Andrew Shearer is set to speak in Washington DC.
On Monday, he will deliver a speech titled "Australia's Opportunities in Security and International Development" to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in what it has billed as an "armchair conversation" about one of America's "key allies in promoting global security and economic prosperity, particularly in the Asia Pacific and Middle East".
The center is ranked as one of America's top think tanks and counts Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brezzinski as members.
Mr Shearer's choice to speak on security matters could be another irritant for the Turnbull government which has taken a less hawkish approach to security matters than Mr Abbott.
Fairfax Media understands there was some consternation in the office of new Defence Minister Marise Payne when her predecessor, Mr Andrews, chose to speak on "Australia's Global Security and Defence Challenges" rather than attend the first week of Parliament last week.
Mr Andrews also found himself in hot water with Liberal Party whip Nola Marino as his request for absence stated he was travelling to Washington to attend a "prayer breakfast".
Mr Shearer is known as a policy hawk on security matters, particularly terrorism, saying last year that "the main thing that keeps me awake at night ... [is] ... domestic terrorism and the new manifestation of lone-wolf single actors".
Mr Abbott sent Mr Shearer to accompany Foreign Minister Julie Bishop in briefings with US Secretary of State John Kerry and US intelligence officials about the war against Islamic State and the threat of terror attacks against Western nations.
In some quarters, Mr Shearer's presence on the trip was viewed as Mr Abbott sending a "babysitter" for Ms Bishop.
Mr Shearer worked during the final year of the Howard government, during which Australia hosted Asia Pacific leaders in Sydney, including the US, Chinese and Russian presidents.