The one thing you seemed to neglect to mention is that Australian citizens are some of the most wealthy in the world! On average, an Australian is 30% more wealthy than an American, and 100% more wealthy than a German. In all the world, only the Swiss have more personal wealth than you. It's because of your mines, and for Switzerland it's because of their banks.

That's why you get charged more for things.. because you have the money to pay for it. That's a fundamental tenant of Capitalism - the price of a product is the price that the market will bare. Stop paying a premium for goods and services, and their price will lower.. but you have the money so pay the premium.

Rightly or wrongly (I personally say wrongly, but clearly I'm in a minority in the world) that's the game most of us are playing right now, whether we want to or not. You have to give the full picture though - you can't just say that the prices are over-inflated, without also explaining that you have a lot more money to spend! They're two halves of the same picture.

Now you personally might be a significantly below average earner (I am too) but people like that exist in all markets - and that sucks when you want cool new things and don't have the savings for it. Personally, I earn very little these days.. but I've been carefully saving (for VR, among other things) for years now. I've been expecting the worst when it comes to price, and the price announcement from Oculus has come as a surprise, but I'm still on-track, and am very much looking forward to the other releases. Morpheus is suddenly looking a lot more attractive to me now because of the price of Oculus, which is an interesting development.