Observed arrival · 2026-11-09
Cost of Pies Index: an unofficial Australian price board
An interactive index compares price histories for 44 Australian staples with official CPI from 2000 onward.
- For
- Readers comparing household staples with official Australian inflation
- Worth noticing
- Items with fewer than four years of real prices are excluded; some early snack series are explicitly described as rough.
Field notes
Visitors can choose a starting year and sort the listed items by fastest rising, slowest rising, alphabetical order or aisle. The project says its 44-item basket gives each item equal weight and chains average annual price changes from 2000 = 100; pack-size changes are adjusted per gram where sizes are known. Sources include archived shop pages, ABS prices, menus and news, with entries tagged sourced, derived or estimate. The author says early snack coverage is weaker and excludes items with fewer than four years of real prices.
Observed signals
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