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Did you feel ripped off this holiday season when you parked your car in the city, at a shopping centre or at the airport when picking up or dropping off loved ones?
If paying inflated petrol prices wasn’t enough, motorists are now also being hit with inflated parking rates when they go shopping or to the airport. Then, of course, there are the CBD parking stations that cost an arm and a leg.
It’s these CBD parking stations that consistently cost motorists dearly as the fees at the CBD parking stations start climbing the moment that boom gate rises to let you in.
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Thanks to the high dollar, Australians have become the world’s most savvy online bargain hunters. Parcels with cheaper DVDs from the US, computer games from Hong Kong and books from Britain now arrive on our shores in the thousands every day.
Australian buyers obviously know how much they can save by shunning domestic retailers for their overseas competitors. Little wonder when, say, Steve Jobs’ biography is selling for $44 in Australia but for the equivalent of just $18 in Britain. Some British online retailers even offer free world-wide shipping.
What most Australians are probably unaware of is how much more they could save if it was possible to buy other goods internationally. Cars for example.
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Mark says:
Actually I we are getting ripped off by overpopulating and choking ourselves into a corner, who cares about cars, raced them, fixed em and wasted too much money on them. We are getting overregulated because we are overpopulated. Read more »
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james martel says:
@ marley, the americans dont have julia gillard and the watermelon greens, though i think we will see obamas true colours if he wins a second term….. Read more »
Well, well, some politicians never cease to amaze us. Just when you thought all was lost with competition law and practice in this country, we have Wayne Swan standing up last week for a more competitive market place by prohibiting the acquisition of ASX Limited (ASX) by Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX).
That was very good decision and needs to be applauded. Now ,Swan has let the side down in the past by allowing bank mergers to go ahead - thereby destroying competition in the banking sector. But on the ASX and SGX deal he certainly did the right thing.
Of course, big end of town interests and their advisers and other supporters will criticise Swan, but such criticism needs to be dismissed for the simple reason that those big end of town supporters have an obvious vested interest in more mergers and acquisitions.
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Meh says:
The ASX is small potatoes. There’s nothing about our computers that is particularly better than Singapore’s computers, except maybe ours handle fewer transactions of lower value and charge more for the privelage. Read more »
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Graeme says:
Sorry Frank but this comes over as a very ordinary effort. Spend more time thinking of your line of attack. Milk as an analogy for the ASX merger proposal? Really? I thought Swan’s decision was hopeless, pretty much standard for him. You want to stop deals because the big end… Read more »
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