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A family with 2 kids, 2 cars and a pet or 2 will serve as a decent example, living in a 4 bed, 2/3 bath house not too far from a city centre.
Weekly supermarket shopping costs around $200, then there's about another $50 per week spent on additional fresh fruit and veg.
Beef and lamb is cheaper in Aus than in the UK and other countries.
All supermarkets run weekly and daily specials - the price of individual items can be reduced substantially, sometimes by 30-50%. Therefore, if you are able to allocate enough time to the process, you should be able to reduce your weekly shopping bill significantly - by about 20% - 30% overall.
Alcoholic drinks are not usually sold in supermarkets - they are generally sold in "bottle shops", which may be attached to a pub/hotel or may be a separate shop. Some of the supermarket chains do have bottle-shops as a side-line, located near the main store.
Note that every week retailers have specials which can reduce the price by 20% or more. Also, beer is much cheaper if you buy a "carton" of 24 cans/bottles or a "block" of 30 cans, rather than buying 4 or 6 at a time. Often there are savings to be had by buying wine by the case or half case. Wine casks (wine box in the UK), holding 2, 3 or 4 litres are also fairly popular and work out cheaper in general than bottled wine. Below are some prices of drinks advertised in specials catalogues that dropped through our door in March 2009.
No official fees, but each family at our school is asked to pay $20 "voluntary contribution", plus $25 to the P&C (Parents and Children association).
There's a stationery order (about $50) at the start of each year, plus the cost of any excursions or incursions (eg. plays put on at the school).
$5,400 per year = $450 per month = $104 per week.
Note: this is a "middle-tier" private school. Fees for the "top" schools can be $12,000 per year for tuition alone. Some private schools, especially Catholic ones, can be quite a bit cheaper.
As an example, from a typical Perth residential area into Perth CBD (a 2-zone journey), the standard fare would be $3.50 per journey, totalling $35 per week (10 trips). This can be reduced to $26.30 per week by using a "SmartRider" card.
That's just over $56,000 per year, which requires a gross salary of about $75,000 (one earner) or $36,000 each (two earners) to provide.
Bear in mind that by definition, as a skilled migrant you are in high demand ?if you were not, you would not be eligible for a PR visa!