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lol. In general I've often wondered what you can get away with - just based on claiming to be misunderstood, even.

If you are in ill, and in hospital it is their word against yours and if you claim you didn't realise you were getting the private deal, you can also say it was unsolicited....

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me either

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This is only a part of the Aussie rip off story: http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonig...sies-pay-more/

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This is one of the other parts ;) http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonig...-in-australia/

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:lol:Yes, very true,

This is an interesting article which touches the many reasons why things are so expensive here. Lots of comments, some of them hair-raising.

The very bad news is high prices are so entrenched (due to high labour costs, high property prices and government regulation) that we might as well get used to them.

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The english will come in handy to buy a drink,the math's when she has to buy a round:lol:

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Naaah, she'll be fine at that, those things are genetic in our family.

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I'll bring me own beer then;)

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That article and the comments are so very true. My US friends cannot believe what I tell them I have to pay for common items - multiples, not just 20 or 30%.

Replacement irrigation sprinkler heads, for example: nearly $60 in Australia, US$12 in the US.

The weird thing is, Australians will whinge about costs (if they have any knowledge of worldwide shopping) but if a Pom does he's being "unAustralian.

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I now believe being Australian means being shafted by other Australians?

They know it

They are happy to take it

:p

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It's clear to me that a lot of people, including Australians, are on to the expense of specified items in Australia compared to the rest of the world.
(If they're not - tell them - diplomatically - we need public opinion on our side - and it is happening - read the comments on the Newspaper sites. There has surely been a change in the last year or two since people started talking about it on this site long before).

What gets me is that the quick fix is to take advantage of the strong AUS dollar.
What happens when the AUS dollar weakens but there is no supply-side change over here.
Lots of variables!

Do people think we will see change soon, later on? Is it definitely happening already? I went to the shops today
and found some items that I considered cheap.

Do people see the situation changing, slowly, quickly...how long?

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Sad but true.

Whenever I see the Australian made, owned, etc claim I can't help thinking to myself that it'll probably be overpriced.

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I'm trying to work out when 'Australian made' could ever have become synonymous with 'quality' in the aussie mind?

I mean, have they ever had a tradition, an expectation, that would say a product was of high quality because it was produced in Oz?But Australian > Rough and Ready - at least that's the association I get.

So why would you advertise as Australian Made as a positive attribute? Give me New Zealand lamb over Australian any day.

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I don't think the message is about quality. It's about 'local' jobs etc...buying unaustralian is traitorous regardless of how much you are being gouged. I'm not sure many people actually take any notice. Some claim to be all true blue but they're then down their local discount store buying Colgate from Indonesia or washing up liquid from the Philippines with English language stickers stuck on by an importer!

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I just bought a digital cooking thermometer off Amazon....about half an hour ago.

On Amazon UK it cost me $69 delivered from the UK.

On Amazon Australia the cost was $94 delivered from the UK

Same thermometer..Guess which I ordered?

How does that work???