Quote Originally Posted by GoldfishMan View Post
I wouldn't agree with comparing us to a country like SG. All the parameters are different. For example, population density in SG is much greater than in Australia. One street lamp in SG illuminates an area for a far greater number of people than a street lamp in Australia. That pushes up the overall price of energy in Australia even if both these countries do not use nuclear power.

There's also the geographical location factor. SG is in a strategic location having many neighbouring poorer countries. They can leverage on that by signing extremely competitive supply agreements with their neighbours for just about everything... Water (check how stupid the Malaysian gov was to sign a FIXED PRICE contract to supply water to SG; they're actually paying money to supply SG with water now, due to inflation!) , energy, etc. Can't do any of that in a huge isolated country like Australia.
Fair enough to leave out SG. But say even if we do deploy Nuclear Power Stations here. Will that "Really" send our labour costs down to be able to build a Manufacturing Industry to compete against say Korea ? Japan ? Taiwan ? Spain ? and the list goes on....