Recently the price of two every-day articles have been the big subject of conversation here in Australia: Petrol and Bananas.

About a month ago cyclone Larry hit the north coast of Queensland creating severe damages, among other things whiping out around 80% of Australias total production af Bananas. Due to the fact that Australia has a ban on importing bananas the price has more than trippled, from being able to find special prices under $2/kg it’s now common with prices around $7/kg, so I now tend to have apples or other things on my morning porriage.

Petrol is at its all time high with prices up to $1.40/l after hovering around $1.00/l for about a year and a half with a little top around september last year of $1.30/l but then it went down to around $1.10/l again. It’s still not as expensive as back in Sweden but over there it doesen’t seem like it has increased as dramaticly as here (and the distances you drive here are just slightly longer…) I’m thinking about buying a car if I get the job at the elevator place I’m talking to, but if I do I’ll get one that runs on LPG instead, there are quite a few cars around that are turned in to Dual-Fuel (runs both on gas and petrol) and even if a car uses up more gas that petrol it ends up being around half the cost/km using LPG at the moment as it sits around $0.45/l

Update 19 May - bananas where up to $14.99/kg at our small local supermarket yesterday and $10 at the larger supermarkets