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.
Dutch economic experience where the manufacturing sector declined and suffered general inflation as a result of the booming natural gas sector.
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.
All in the name of The Spice Must Flow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwrecks_of_Western_Australi...
But the formalism remains: Australian defence forces are not overtly seeking nuclear arms to operate under the Australian flag.
Oh there is intent - enough nukes to end a superpower from the grave is our goal