Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he will not be sending his predecessor on any more diplomatic missions, after Malcolm Turnbull warned against the new PM's Israel policy.
Mr Turnbull attended an oceans conference in Indonesia with President Joko Widodo this week, at the request of Mr Morrison.
During that event, he said moving Australia's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would provoke a "very negative reaction" from Indonesia.
This morning, 2GB radio broadcaster Alan Jones asked Mr Morrison whether there would be "more missions for this man to be able to go and sprout his own, discredited views".
To that, the Prime Minister replied, "no."
Mr Morrison also pointed out that "issues of trade and other things" were "not really part of the brief" for Mr Turnbull's trip.
"I'm always going to act with respect towards previous prime ministers, regardless of who they are," Mr Morrison said.
"But I do think the exemplar of previous prime ministers about how they go about things post and outside politics is John Howard, and on Labor's side it's Julia Gillard."
Mr Morrison was widely criticised when he announced during the Wentworth by-election that Australia was rethinking its policy on Israel, including recognising Jerusalem as the official capital.
The move was seen by some as a deliberate pitch to the electorate's 13 per cent Jewish vote.
But Mr Turnbull has copped fire from Coalition MPs, who argue he did not do enough to help the Government win the byelection, which was triggered by his resignation after he was toppled by his own colleagues.
Earlier this week, the former PM 'liked' a Twitter post that reported Newspoll figures that Mr Morrison's approval rating among voters had dropped.
Mr Morrison, when asked about that on 2GB, said "yeah, I'm aware of it. But I just brush it off."
Mr Turnbull will make his first major media appearance since losing the prime ministership, next Monday, on the ABC's Q&A program.
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