TRENDING Right now, and for the next few weeks, it pays to shop local. Goods in Australian shops are likely to be cheaper than buying the same product online because what is sitting on store shelves was probably purchased when the Australian dollar was sitting above US80c. If you buy online, you are buying at today's exchange rate of US69c. Because we all know online shopping had nothing to do with the 10 per cent GST discount. It was driven by our amazingly and unusually strong Australian dollar. And we really took advantage of the dollar's strength. We spent coins here, we spent coins online, we threw handfuls of coins around the world travelling and then...
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