Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has called on Donald Trump to deepen rather than reduce US leadership in Asia in a speech that underscores Australian concern about the potential for the new President's isolationist leanings.

In a speech she was set to deliver in Los Angeles on Friday morning, Ms Bishop described the US as "the indispensible power throughout the Indo-Pacific" while also spruiking Australia's role, stressing that the heavy lifting would not be left to the US alone.

Couching the speech as a set of ideas that "we believe the new administration should consider", she urged Mr Trump to boost American engagement with the major grouping of South-East Asian countries and said he should personally attend this year's key East Asia Summit in the Philippines.

"Most nations wish to see more US leadership, not less, and have no desire to see powers other than the US calling the shots," she said, according to speech notes given to Fairfax Media.