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Nuclear costing suffers from flawed assumptions
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In announcing the costings for his nuclear policy, Peter Dutton is placing heavy reliance on the modelling done by Danny Price and Frontier Economics (“Nuclear will need Labor’s help: Dutton”).
I am sure Mr Price is a capable mathematician, and that he can make numbers add up. However, even the best models are only as good as the assumptions fed into them, and the assumptions used by Mr Price are heroic to say the least.
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