The Labor party has decided to step back from Donald Trump's America and reassess while putting more emphasis on Asia, a break in the longstanding bipartisan consensus towards Australia's chief ally.

While stating that Labor remains committed to the alliance with the US, the party's foreign affairs spokerperson, Penny Wong, says that "we should not be naïve".

"We are at a change point, and face the possibility of a very different world and a very different America," she writes in an opinion piece for Fairfax Media.

"We need to consider a broader range of scenarios than was previously within contemplation."