An Australian defence contingent has spent the past fortnight practising a humanitarian crisis response alongside more than 2,200 French military personnel, as the two countries try to put the cancelled submarine deal behind them.
After a few years of hiatus due to COVID-19, Exercise Croix Du Sud this year included 3,000 personnel from 19 countries responding to a scenario where a tsunami hits the French territory in the Pacific, about 1,500 kilometres east of Queensland.
