Pricing: Apple Defies Australian Government

daria42 writes "This week it was revealed that Apple has still not responded to Australia's Federal Parliament on the issue of why the prices of its products are significantly higher in Australia than they are in the US, five months after the query was first raised by a member of parliament from Australia's governing Labor party. Apple has refused to issue a statement on the matter or even acknowledge the issue. What will it take to get Apple to open up — a national enquiry?"

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Re:Everything costs more in Australia

[Noughmad]

It's quite simple. The companies want to ship directly from China to Australia. However, the cheap Chinese workes only see "ship to AUS" and read that as "American United States". So every component has to go to America first. Once there, expensive, inefficient and union-protected workers have to unload it, load it again and finally ship it to Australia.