I think you are missing the context around nuclear anything in Australia.
We have no nuclear powerplants. We have no nuclear submarines. Large portions of the country are staunchly against mining uranium. Most people don't know We operate a single nuclear reactor that only produces medical isotopes. There is no nuance on anything nuclear here because it is almost completely absent from the country.
It was an Australian nuclear scientist (who later became the South Australian Governor) who convinced the USofA that building an atomic weapon was in fact possible.
Australia has a reasonable number of people in the International weapons inspection (conventional and atomic) game.
Australia performs a significant amount of radiometric surveying.
There is no nuance on anything nuclear here (in Australia) because most people choose to remain unaware.
I'm guessing you mean the broader global usage applied to Australia as a whole:
Dutch economic experience where the manufacturing sector declined and suffered general inflation as a result of the booming natural gas sector.
ie: An exurberance of raw natural resources killing other sectors of the economy.
In the context of Western Australia, though, one might argue that the "Dutch curse" is consistently smashing your ships up against the shores of one of the more hostile coasts globally.
I don't disagree that nuclear anything is a big deal, but just wanted remind everyone that the British tested their nuclear bombs in the outback.. and Australia has ordered some nuclear subs.
Nuclear powered subs, there is no intent or request to provide nuclear weapons. It is not unusual for nuclear capable vessels to visit Australia and in the usual "will not confirm or deny" sense nobody is going to speak to visiting vessels with ICBM or tactical nuclear weapons.
But the formalism remains: Australian defence forces are not overtly seeking nuclear arms to operate under the Australian flag.
We have no nuclear powerplants. We have no nuclear submarines. Large portions of the country are staunchly against mining uranium. Most people don't know We operate a single nuclear reactor that only produces medical isotopes. There is no nuance on anything nuclear here because it is almost completely absent from the country.