Tim Tams selling for more than $11 at remote store   
New images have captured the shocking reality of soaring food prices, with Tim Tams selling more almost $12.   

News.com.au
June 5, 2024

The soaring price of staple supermarket favourites has made shockwaves online after a packet of Tim Tams was snapped selling for a whopping $11.80.

The Australian biscuits were one of a number of exorbitantly priced products on sale in Kalumburu in far north Western Australia this week.

Photos obtained by the ABC showed Arnott’s Sao biscuits selling for $8.90, with Black and Gold brand laundry powder on sale for $9.30.

Across the board, prices for staple foods, including fruit, vegetables, and pasta, was more than double what it would cost online.


For 500g of spiral pasta, Kalumburu residents in April 2024 could expect to pay $6; online, it was selling for just $2.95.

It comes amid heightened focus on food affordability in light of the current cost-of-living crisis, both in remote communities and in Australia’s big cities.

Earlier this month, a Byron Bay resident took to social media to vent frustration at the cost of a punnet of strawberries, snapped at Coles at $9.50.

While Coles issued a statement explaining that the high price was due to seasonal changes, it came amid increased scrutiny on supermarkets.

Prices were recorded growing faster in remote stores in the NT.

An 195-page report flowing from an inquiry into Coles and Woolworths recommended the duopoly be broken up and regulators empowered.


Concerns for food security are particularly sensitive in remote communities like Kalumburu, where the ABC said the price gap was only widening.

The cost of a basket of healthy food was 40 per cent more in remote stores in the Northern Territory than in the suburbs, a recent report found.

Between 2000 and 2019, the cost of a grocery shop rose 3.1 per cent annually in remote communities, compared to the just 2.9 per cent CPI.

Don't buy them.

GTTF has exposed himself as a Tim Tam consumer. White only?

There is no substitute for bigotry and hate.

Frank and GTTF associate and imbibe in sheep dag tea with their white Tim Tams.

whiteknight wrote on Jun 5^th, 2024 at 9:53am:

White Knight is a crazy, obscene, ABC toad and haywire. Byron Bay boongs hunt mud eels and eat roast slime cooked on kangaroo dung. They have no rights to German strawberries, media or $.
)^32 )^%$# HF&553!

I wonder if one single Abo resident of resident of Kalumburu has a job.

Interesting, I can't find one real estate transaction for Kalumburu. Woner why

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jun 5^th, 2024 at 12:37pm:


Keep it up and you'll be fronting the judiciary for a low tackle...  ah lahks ma dark chocolate ...

When you choose to live the chosen lifestyle out in Whoop-Whoop you expect to pay for a packet of Tim Tams.

I was so bored reading this thread I decided to eat a whole packet of Tim Tams.

The dark chocolate ones.

And I have the empty packet to prove it.

Oh, they were $7 for 2 packets at Coles Belmont Forum the other day.

Daves2017 wrote on Jun 5^th, 2024 at 2:23pm:

Aborigines are adapted to living remotely, ffs. They lived remotely until 5 minutes ago - but now it's gissa Tim Tams like it's an entitlement.

The smart money is on the max 22kg Auspost,  $72 for 110 packets, around .65 pack.  Say $50 day on benefits, Carl gets 15 packets a day.

Oh.My.GAWD!!!

The horror.

Here in BIDEN's AMERICA "We The People" can get government-controlled pussy placebo knockoffs for @$2.79 a box.



Suck it, Australia

Marla wrote on Jun 6^th, 2024 at 2:26am:

$2.79 = $4.193 Au.

Arnott's Tim Tam Original Chocolate Biscuits | 200g Coles.
$2.50
suck  slurp  chew hallucinate

The US federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour = $10.895 Au.
 The Aust national minimum wage  $24.10 per hour. Almost 10 packets Tim Tam.

Gnads doesn't like competition in the hate and bigotry business.

Gnads only buys white Tim Tams.

Daves2017 wrote on Jun 5^th, 2024 at 2:23pm:


And that's paid for by the taxpayer.

The whole article is a non issue and the emphasis should be about a better diet because statistically Aboriginals have a lesser life expectancy than other Australians because of higher rates of diabetes, kidney disease and associated illnesses driven by poor diets/nutrition and substance abuse.

The cost of a packet of Tim Tams should not be news worthy nor in the least of any concern as an issue for remote communities like Kalumburu.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jun 6^th, 2024 at 8:54am:



I never by white chocolate of any description you terrorist supporting moron

Gnads wrote on Jun 6^th, 2024 at 9:56am:


Read what I said about the real estate. RP data doesn't show a single real estate transaction for Kalumburu. That's because it's not a real town. A real town is where people engage in some kind of commercial activity and ultimately people desire to move there, so buy real estate. Kalumburu is a welfare encampment. The whole joint is tax payer funded, the only incomes there is welfare. The barge which brings the tim tams in is taxpayer funded. The money that buys the expensive tim tams is welfare money.

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Gordon is a total dumbf**k moronic cretin.

So many lies.

"24,000l. 20tons fuel @ $820 Au ton= $1640"

24000 l of fuel = $1640 is absolute deceit and nonsense. That's about 6c a litre for fuel.

If the ferry uses 24,000 l of fuel for the round trip that would cost more than the $25,000 fee for the ferry.

Bigots and racists are very poor at the presentation of their lies.

It is evident that Gordon is deficient in education and should sue his educators for their negligence.

Gordon wrote on Jun 5^th, 2024 at 2:01pm:


Not that it matters. They get paid $45,000 a year to sit on their arses, anyway. Royalties from mining. It is not like they cannot afford inflated prices.

These are great.

Marla wrote on Jun 6^th, 2024 at 2:26am:

That's about 3 packets for an hour's basic wage US, 5 packets in Oz.

Marla wrote on Jun 6^th, 2024 at 2:27am:


And you root raccoons. 

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jun 6^th, 2024 at 12:58pm:



It doesn't matter you terrorist supporting POS ...

IT'S ALL AT TAXPAYERS EXPENSE.

Gordon wrote on Jun 7^th, 2024 at 7:30pm:


Dark brown with a few white spots?  Ummmm ... dime a dozen ................

UnSubRocky wrote on Jun 7^th, 2024 at 11:49am:


Aussie chocolate coated dongers obviously.

Setanta wrote on Jun 7^th, 2024 at 7:55pm:


Marla might have the munchies on occasion. But, I don't think she would be that hungry.