Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to visit Paris to 'reset' Australia's relationship with France

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to visit Paris to 'reset' Australia's relationship with France.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed he will visit French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris next week to formally "reset" diplomatic relations, which were flung into the freezer after the Morrison government scrapped a massive deal to build 12 submarines.

On a visit to Sydney in 2018, the President said the submarines were just the "very beginning" of a closer relationship with Australia that would be developed for "the coming 50 years".

Even though much of the discussion at NATO is going to be about Russia's invasion, some defence and intelligence experts are urging the Prime Minister to use his trip to remind allies of China's growing aims for our region.

"Our Prime Minister, our Foreign Minister and our Defence Minister need to keep at the centre of their minds, deeply etched in, their first priority is the defence of this country and making sure that our immediate region is not dominated by an aggressive expansionist power," he said.

Faced with a number of international and domestic challenges, the new government has also inherited a budget that is on track to be more than a trillion dollars in debt in a few years' time.

With inflation and interest rates rising, the Prime Minister has said some things he would like to do in the government's first budget in October will have to wait.

"I expect the October budget will be simply about delivering on the promises they took to the election," Danielle Wood from the Grattan Institute said