Australia is one of most expensive places to come for a holiday.The A$ is too high and you need plenty of them to buy a nights sleep here in rip off land. Come on $120 for a night in a cabin or a motel is double what it is worth.

Wake up Australian caravan park owners.....I will not pay $35 for $4 worth of power and water.

$4.50 for a meat pie and $3.50 for a cup of coffee.....Have look at what the Little Chef charges in UK.

Almost everything is 50% less in Europe.

www.littlechef.co.uk

Seggie.  John Mathew?  Travel agent?

Everyone wants to be a millionaire here in OZ

Oh I love Australia alright but dislike these imported arseholes with big mouths and some who think they own the place.

The only real Aussie is an Aboriginal.......the rest are imports

Brokenshire was a pro

Pete :)

When your wife left you -Did she take you to the cleaners ?

Or are you still a worthwhile catch ?

Yes, a free ad methinks.

While I too love Australia, Davey is right about costs here. We pay far too much for food, clothes, electrical goods, travel etc compoared with the UK and US. Apart from petrol most things are cheaper and public transport is much better and cheaper.  I'm not saying I'd rather live there but we are definitely overcharged here.

And holiday travel bears no comparison at all. We've done a few European river cruises and booked them with an English company. They are half the price that a travel company here charges. And you can get self-catering holiday packages to places like Spain and Greece for ridiculously low prices.

I just thought we were all millionaires, were still breathing, some even have a pulse.

We should include "whinging" in the olympics.......we have enough "whinging-pom, 10-pound tourists" here to take gold without resorting to medicating them (other than to shut them up of course)....hahahahahahaha

If you're unhappy with prices in Australia go somewhere else - remaining there indefinitely is OK too ....hahahahaha

The same thing that puts the prices up is the same thing that enables you not to be assaulted, kidnapped, shot, robbed or otherwise harassed during your holiday - it's called  'living standards '

It costs because everyone wants to be paid a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. This principle is a uniquely aussie concept because business everywhere else defines fair using  "the golden rule" ie 'whoever has the gold makes the rules'....... Aussies however, believe 'Jack is as good as his master' and fair as being a balance between "what the work earns and what the work pays". This is a bit of a jump from the servant mentality bred into other populations, centred around the need to 'know one's place' in society and not everyone coming to australia can be immediately part of the concept. Perhaps they need a couple of generations to develop the belief 'by osmosis' from the society around them....

Aussies have been defining our 'place' for ourselves to our own standards for quite a few years and but for our politicians (of all stripes) letting us down time and again we could be a balanced self-sufficient nation by now.

Why things are cheap in the US ......The septics pay many of their 'workers' a minimum wage of $6.50 an hour, no sick days, no annual leave and no workers comp in many cases (yes, it is still legal to do that over their under certain contracts) This is called working poverty or the 'working poor' because what they can earn in 80hrs per week is just enough not to die or have (some of ) your children not die. It's called 'financial servitude' and is not at all dis-similar to the old English fuedal-barons land ownership system on which the US power structure is based.

 Last estimate I saw was about 50mill people living at, or below, the 'survival' line in the US - difficult to tell really because not everyone is counted in their census !!! ...that would be 'hiding' the poor same way we now 'hide the boats' I guess....

The reason stuff is cheap in the US is because labour is cheap - and yes, I do buy specialist motorcycle parts from the US for that reason.

I did a tour of a Caterpillar factory over there some years ago and the conditions in which these guys were working - in one of the leading businesses in the country - aussies would have considered ludicrous.

Safety was not a major consideration and workers could do up to 36 hours straight (at minimum wage no penalty rates) if they could get the shifts. If these guys got hurt they would just have to 'get well at home' without pay. If someone is killed they don't even shut the work site down for the investigation.....The reps giving the tours joked about the coffee and 'other substances' these guys used to stay awake.

The people who make the beds in your holiday accomodation are paid better than many factory workers in the US - to maintain a standard that does not create financial servitude - for the moment at least.

MM. The land of the free,  {free to exploit the working class} the envy of Joe Hockey.

Oh no. The "3 Arsewipes" are having a go. Ouch!! Perverted male nurse Dopey Davey and his clowns Wankin Wabbit and Jerkoff Gerryatric.