Crikey article from last week is now out of subscriber mode and can be read by anyone.
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Adobe software, 42% more expensive here. Microsoft 66%. Autodesk 51%. Hardware (Apple, surprisingly, excepted) 46% dearer. Music, 52%. Games, 84%.
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the same rubbish excuses from the companies — tax, rents, high wages, regulation — that we’re used to hearing are also there, all rejected by the committee as insufficient to explain the extraordinary differences in prices for the same product here and offshore
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Indeed the committee report is littered with the sight of bodies ostensibly intended to represent the interests of Australian business slavishly following the diktats of their offshore masters.
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