#cost of living in Australia

[shuraaeducation]

Cost of Living in Australia – 2025-26

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[experteducationaustralia]

Cost of living in Australia: A quick guide to expenses for international students

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[nando161mando]

Why are things expensive?

4 companies control 55% to 85% of the meat market.

4 airlines control 80% of air travel.

3 companies control 92% of the soda market.

3 companies control 73% of the cereal market.

Why don't I hear about it?

6 companies control 90% of the news.

[arc-hus]

Garden House, Westernport, Australia - Baracco + Wright

http://www.baraccowright.com/

[cripplerage]

Hey uh Australians are getting scurvy because the cost of food is going up so much

[nimthirielrinon]

FELLOW VICTORIANS

The Greens are trying to put pressure on the State government to pilot a living wage for artists, and their goal is (only!!!) 1,000 signatures.

If you live in Victoria, Australia, PLEASE sign this! Artists deserve a living wage, and if this pilot goes ahead I have no doubt it’ll be a success. But first, it needs to go ahead.

Here is the link to add your name.

Please remember to reblog!!!

[not-poignant]

Hello! Wanted to ask about Ream. You said that you set your tiers a long time ago, and with current horrors of Patreon and such will you add some tiers to Ream so that once-a-month payers on Patreon could find a tier with same price on Ream and would be comfortable moving? Thanks!

Hi anon!

So this is something I've been thinking over for months actually.

At first I was like 'yes of course' and then a very good friend sat me down and I realised that...actually maybe not.

Here's the reason (tl;dr I haven't increased my income in 10 years and actually cost of living has gone up in that period of time and I need to eat too):

Those prices haven't changed in a decade. I haven't had a 'wage increase' on that front in a decade. You can't change tier prices once they're made, they're locked in place forever (until you delete or retire the tier).

Not only that, but I offer about...3-4 times as much as I used to.

In the end, I increased my prices on Ream (a semi-midway point between charging once and charging twice) because of inflation and cost of living.

I know that everyone reading this is impacted by that too, and that might mean some people can't subscribe to Ream (or can't subscribe on the same tier) for a few dollars more because it's just too much, but I am now drastically undercharging compared to so many other authors on the market who do subscription.

Where I charge $5 USD for base early access, most charge between $10-20. I settled on $9 USD on Ream. Some authors have tiers of like... $100-200 per month, and I couldn't ever dream of doing that. But this is my career, and it's the money I use to pay for food, bills, etc. I don't make a minimum wage with the hours I work, and the idea of just hitting the country's average yearly income feels like a distant dream.

Granted, some of that could be down to my marketing options (like maybe I'd make more if I took all my writing offline and made people pay for all of it, but I don't want to do that, I like the model I do now, but it's dependent on those who can comfortably afford to support it... supporting it - if they want!!)

When I set up Ream, and set up the new tiers, I set them up with how much the cost of living has changed in a decade and how much other authors are charging on the whole. And I thought about it and came to the conclusion that I have 10 years behind me, I'm offering 3-4 times as much as I used to and am only charging about 50-80% more, cost of living has changed, and since I don't rely on book royalties (I love Perth Shifters but royalties work out to about $30 every 3 months), subscription is where the changes need to happen.

I'm not super happy about that, like, obviously I don't want people to feel hard done by, but all I can do is remind myself - and remind you and others anon - that unlike 99% of other authors in subscription, almost all of my writing becomes freely available if folks just have patience. That's something I know for a fact some other authors think I'm stupid for doing, lol, but I prefer doing it this way because it feels fandom and community friendly in a different way.

So even if folks can't afford a few dollars more to subscribe on Ream (you can become a follower though and still get email notifications - no one needs to pay to follow me on Ream, that's completely free), you just need to be patient. Like I get it, that few dollars is the difference sometimes between a bill getting paid and not getting paid - I feel and live that myself. I'm so angry at the Patreon situation, because honestly, if my account goes tomorrow and I get banned there, I may have to quit writing if Ream can't pick up fast. I cannot work for like... 50c an hour.

And I need to make some posts about this on Patreon obviously, but the stress of it is so overwhelming, because it's like staring down the barrel of a potentially career-ending policy decision.

Anyway, re: tier prices, the one exception to not changing / offering half-priced or lower-priced tiers is the merch tier, where I have thought about approaching Ream with getting an ongoing discount code, since I calculated sending merch on the merch tier at the $25 USD rate with the awareness that some people would be paying twice as much, and the leap there is the most significant one. That's a place where I'm willing to compromise if I can work that out, and Ream is typically very accommodating.

Folks who can't afford it still get access to nearly everything eventually - and not in a year, but like...in a few months, or even just a handful of weeks.

Folks who don't think my writing is worth a modest increase can choose to bow out whenever they want (or sign up to a lower tier and still get access to nearly everything eventually)!

I am grateful to any and all folks who choose to support my writing whether it's financially or not, and I do get that like, sometimes the budget just does not allow for an increase of any kind. Or maybe you only signed up this year and don't believe in paying more than what you do already, and so it doesn't matter that my prices have been the same for a decade. Most artists / creators / writers have put up their book prices / art prices / etc. Ream is the first time I've ever done it.

Anyway on the matter of the merch tier, I'll talk to Ream about organising some kind of perma-discount and offering it specifically in that tier. For the rest, I'll keep thinking about it, and maybe talk to Ream to see what they suggest too.

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Anyway, I'm just... I am sorry anon, in a perfect world, I would have been able to incrementally increase my tier prices all along with a lot of warning in advance. And I'm also like, extremely and intensely hoping that I can just stay on Patreon, but that seems less and less likely with their new policy changes. I'm not uprooting, I will keep posting on Patreon until the lights metaphorically go out. It's just, they could kick me in an hour and I'd have no recourse and there'd be no point in appealing. Or they could kick me in 5 years, or 10.

In some ways this isn't a problem until Patreon makes it a problem for all of us, but yeah, that's where I'm at. A friend basically reminded me that it's okay for me to value my writing and my 10 years of experience and my track record and my stories a bit more, and I took their advice to heart, and then have felt terribly guilty ever since, lol. I'll keep thinking about my options here, and what I can do, because I obviously don't want to leave a lot of people behind, either.

[frogwhispererer]

‘do you want to round up your purchase and donate to this charity’ after you artificially inflated prices ? after you had record breaking profits but still underpay staff?? after you introduced ‘members club prices’ on fucking GROCERIES? if you care about charities so much stop making life worse for poor people. woolworths i hope you fucking burn

[figsandfandoms]

I'm literally begging every Australian to use https://petrolspy.com.au/ when they need to fill their car.

with petrol stations routinely gauging us, this site will help you find the cheapest petrol near you. members of the public put in the prices so you can be (mostly) sure they're up to date. i've only once had the price be wrong- and it was lower than what was on the site.

please for the love of gosh use this. you'll save money and you'll show the bigger companies that you don't need them.

just last night a small petrol station had e10 for 197.9/ltr. less than a k down the road a larger retailer was selling it for 235.9/lrt! that's almost 40 cents per litre higher! even if you've got one of those "save 4c a litre" discounts at the bigger retailer, you're still spending more money!!

petrol gauging is nothing new and it's only going to get worse but we can all do our part by shopping at cheaper stations where we can*. this site can help you find them.

*and i know that not everyone has a choice in where they can get petrol and i know not everyone can drive an extra k or two to get it cheaper. but if those of us who can start abandoning retailers like Coles, Woolies, and Ampol (to name but a few of the biggers gaugers i've seen) in order to go where petrol is cheaper, hopefully soon they'll realise it's better for them to stop gauging so much.

[lupfull]

man it just really sucks knowing the land you're on and biome you're in doesn't line up with what you've known as home for decades without even being there

[spiralfucker]

If I started a gofundme or something for top surgery would you guys kill me

[indizombie]

We have to close our phone lines and close our doors because there are only so many people we can see in a day. Last year we saw an increase in the cost of living and we expect that to continue to worsen. It's people having to choose whether or not they have food on the table, paying the rent, or paying electricity. I think we're very much at a crisis point in the community."

Astra Fleetwood, manager of Anglicare SA Financial Counselling and Emergency Assistance

[nando161mando]

Workers won’t accept less than $81,000 for a new role right now

https://fortune.com/2024/08/21/worker-reservation-wage-job-new-york-fed-survey/

[adornesibley]

Hey, fun fact for fellow Australians suffering from the cost of living crisis. You know the submarine deal? 368 billion dollars. Just hold that number in your head.

Population of Australian (including people not on job seeker, and babies)? 25.69 Million.

How much would every single Australian receive this year if the submarine money was simply given to us? 14,374 dollars.

For rich folks, might not sound like much. For the rest of us, that could be your bloody rent for the year! (If you’re lucky) Also, nearly all of that money would reenter the economy as your average person is currently struggling to pay for food and rent. Just food for thought.