We need to reboot; We have already had very constructive discussions, Albanese said in an interview on ABC.

Relations between Canberra and Paris cooled last year when Scott Morrison’s government broke a $62 billion deal to build 12 submarines by a French state-owned company.

Earlier this month, the new Australian Labor government announced a $583 million payment agreement to the French company Naval Group, in compensation for the canceled deal.

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