Perth's new stadium and unicorns

[Jeffles]

That's expensive. Is it true that $8 is the standard price for a schooner in Perth? That's what I've heard.

[Egan]

Isn't Subiaco a tourist precinct?

It's certainly a tourist mecca. Where else can you go to pay $12 for a pint of local beer?

Yeah they expanded into Subiaco the CBD tourist exemption at the start of last year. They expanded it about a 10km circle from CBD.

Rob Claremont has similar beer pint prices...

Jeffles, depends on where you go. I paid $12 for a pint of Stella at Mustang Bar in Northbridge, but pints are bigger than schooners.

If you go to our 'local' before glory games we get pint specials of $7.50 for Tooheys New, Guiness and Kilkenny at Phant and Wheelbarrow.

I've found that alcohol prices are like 30-40% cheaper in Bunbury than Perth and Mandurah.

[yob]

Isn't Subiaco a tourist precinct?

It's certainly a tourist mecca. Where else can you go to pay $12 for a pint of local beer?

Yeah they expanded into Subiaco the CBD tourist exemption at the start of last year. They expanded it about a 10km circle from CBD.

Rob Claremont has similar beer pint prices...

Jeffles, depends on where you go. I paid $12 for a pint of Stella at Mustang Bar in Northbridge, but pints are bigger than schooners.

If you go to our 'local' before glory games we get pint specials of $7.50 for Tooheys New, Guiness and Kilkenny at Phant and Wheelbarrow.

I've found that alcohol prices are like 30-40% cheaper in Bunbury than Perth and Mandurah.

I was paying $3 for scooners of Stella (which are called pints in Adelaide) in Newtown.

And I was paying $3 for pints of Coopers in Adelaide. It's a premium brand here

[Egan]

^ Yes, alcohol prices on the east coast are awesome.

But as I have said before, I'll happily pay more in alcohol for there to be no pokies on the eucla side of the nullabor.

[yob]

^ Yes, alcohol prices on the east coast are awesome.

But as I have said before, I'll happily pay more in alcohol for there to be no pokies on the eucla side of the nullabor.

Pokies typically subsidise the meals, not booze.

Sure, paying $10 for a shnitty is tough but someone has to do it. I also vageuly remember paying $5 for a steak and potato mash in Sydney. And I haven't played a pokie in my life - the ultimate free ride.

[Jeffles]

Pokies also subsidise grog, as you can see in any big RSL or Leagues Club here. But even non-pokie venues here have realtively cheap beer prices.

[Egan]

Pokies also subsidise grog, as you can see in any big RSL or Leagues Club here. But even non-pokie venues here have realtively cheap beer prices.

Don't quote me on this, but I have heard there is an extra tax on alcohol here in WA on beer that causes the price to be so high.

[Rob]

Pokies also subsidise grog, as you can see in any big RSL or Leagues Club here. But even non-pokie venues here have realtively cheap beer prices.

That's just a byproduct of competition. You stick a pokie palace with $5 pints next to, say, the Inglewood (which i'll use as an example because I was paying $10 for a pint of Coopers pale ale there on the weekend) then you can bet your ass that they won't be charging $10 a pint for very long if they want to stay in business.

It also doesn't help that it's virtually impossible to open a pub within 10km of another one in Perth now anyway given our horrendously draconian liquor licencing laws, which works to completely stifle any potential competition in the first place. So pubs can pretty much charge what they want over here. Which they duly oblige.

[Egan]

The dodgier the pub the cheaper the prices.

The bloody Vic and Claremont Hotel are the most expensive of the lot in my experience. Wankfest as well.

[Egan]

Another new location for this unicorn...

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/ne ... r-stadium/

Talk, talk, talk...

[Jeffles]

Isn't that site too small?

[Egan]

Isn't that site too small?

Nah, theres enough land there to build a Stadium, not too far from the train station either...

[Jeffles]

It looks a bit tight. I mean, you can fit a stadium in there but not much else because of that golf course. Not much in the way of parking. You'd use the Casino.

[Egan]

Golf Course would likely go...its state government land...

[yob]

Loving the whinging replies about why the WA taxpayer should foot the bill.

Because you can, moneybags.