{"id":928429,"date":"2026-10-15T00:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/928429\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T00:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:20:15","slug":"why-are-eggs-so-expensive-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/928429\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Eggs So EXPENSIVE in Australia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year, Australia has recorded some of the highest prices in the world for one particular supermarket staple: eggs.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the ACCC launched a case against the country\u2019s biggest egg producers, accusing them of anti-competitive conduct including acting as a cartel and culling hens to drive up prices.<\/p>\n<p>On today\u2019s podcast we&#8217;re going to tell you everything you need to know about this case, and get to the bottom of why eggs have been so expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Host: Elliot Lawry and Emily Donohoe<br \/>Producer: Orla Maher<br \/>Video editor: Rosa Bowden<\/p>\n<p>Want to listen to more episodes of The Daily Aus&#8217; podcast? Follow us:<br \/>Spotify \u25ba https:\/\/spoti.fi\/46UTaD7<br \/>Apple \u25ba https:\/\/apple.co\/3MiPu4I<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Aus is a media company focused on delivering accessible and digestible news to young people. We are completely independent. Support us by subscribing to our channel here: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3l6IFpt<\/p>\n<p>Or check out our other platforms here:<br \/>Website \u25ba https:\/\/thedailyaus.com.au<br \/>Instagram \u25ba https:\/\/instagram.com\/thedailyaus<br \/>TikTok \u25ba https:\/\/tiktok.com\/@thedailyaus<\/p>\n<p>Note: Captions are auto-generated <\/p>\n<p>Shot on Fujifilm: https:\/\/www.fujifilm.com\/au\/en<\/p>\n<p>#news  #podcast  #thedailyaus<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the past year, Australia has recorded some of the highest prices in the world for one particular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-928429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}