Please don't shoot from the hip when you are so ill informed.
Cheaper options are available in a regional city called Bendigo some 35km away, and I've no doubt that there are even greater discounts available in larger cities.
And there's the rub. Lack of meaningful competition in many sectors in Australia leads to a kind of price rorting, as I believe it's called by the Australian consumer and competition agency.
I have no political axe to grind. I'm merely on the one hand pointing out a price differential observable to any visiting european, and on the other indicating what seems to be an effect of limited competition.
Australian prices generally have increased greatly relative to the English pound in my experience. The reasons for that aren't that difficult to understand, and ordinary supply demand leads to large regional variations I'm sure.
Australian politics are not my politics, though I presume they're yours. I hope I haven't stumbled into some local political schism.
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