However, it turns out they’re not the only biscuits where you’ll pay a crummy price as an airport buyer. Tim Tams are the most visible offenders, and a frequent target of ridicule on social media. Forget the “cute” 747 in-joke that’s more than double the price you’d have paid if you’d stopped at the supermarket en route to the airport, even if there weren’t any specials running. And if you happen to pick the wrong store, you’ll occasionally see the eye-watering price of $7.47. If you just want a single packet, you can expect to pay $6.30. That’s already 38 per cent more than the standard supermarket price. The airport retail economy works differently.Īt the airport, the “cheap” Tim Tams price is four regular packets for $20. The typical supermarket price for a standard packet of Tim Tams is $3.65, and they regularly go on special for $2 a packet. Tim Tams are frequently held up as a prime example of how you’ll pay over the odds if you leave your gift buying for overseas friends and relatives until the last minute. Nair said she had nothing but a warm reception from WA politicians like Premier Mark McGowan, who often waded into foreign policy debates to defend the China-Australia relationship during the former Coalition government.I’m not easily shocked by the OTT prices when you buy stuff at the airport, but this example really takes the biscuit.
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The superpower has not been afraid to exert influence economically by applying huge tariffs to commodities such as lobsters, wine, barley and meat and at a local level the Chinese consulate has also reached out to journalists to coach them on how to report geopolitical issues in Taiwan. US companies and businesses have invested over a trillion dollars now in Australia.”Ĭhina’s relationship with Australia has been rocky since the beginning of the pandemic but WA’s economic ties, particularly in the iron ore sector, means ebbs and flows of the relationship have huge impacts on the lives and livelihoods of West Australians. “We will continue to be Australia’s top economic partner. “I think if you look at the city and see the names on the buildings, you have a lot of US investors, a lot of US support for the Western Australia economy,” she said. Her role will also coincide with the ramping up of the Australian, United Kingdom and United States’ AUKUS alliance to build a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and greater activity of the Quad partnership with India, Japan and the US in the face of an increasingly aggressive China in the Indo-Pacific region. Kennedy was the previous Obama administration’s ambassador to the important posting of Japan and is the daughter of former US president John F. Her boss, US ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy, is also fresh off the boat and is one of the most high-profile ambassador picks in recent memory, indicative of how seriously the Biden administration is taking the relationship. She has worked for the US Department of state for 20 years and served in some of the US’ most complex bilateral relationships including India, the Philippines, Indonesia and most recently, Brazil.
Nair arrived in WA in August, replacing former Consul General David Gainer in Perth, which both diplomats described as one of the best postings in the US foreign service. As it turned out the bird was a prescient sign: our discussion quickly moved to the US government’s US$367 billion funding commitment that will open lucrative opportunities for Australian critical minerals miners to help the superpower diversify global supply chains.
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