I can tell you never lived in a poor country. Often times it's the reverse: international goods are same or significantly higher than USA or first world prices

I can tell you never lived in a poor country. Often times it's the reverse: international goods are same or significantly higher than USA or first world prices: the west embraced free trade but the rest of the world not so much.... A few things like McDonalds will be lower by 30% but many chain stores will go the opposite direction: luxury pricing premium...reasons vary from local tariff(especially for cars or electronics) or just brand snobbery(Nike is expensive in china for example) or protective laws(Korean electronics and cars are more expensive in Korea than USA, tariffs keep out cheaper foreign competitors). Often times, poor countries have crazy bad wealth distribution ratios so overcharging to enhance prestige is fairly normal. Going low on price is a bad strategy since 90% of the population can't even afford your goods but the top 5-10% can spend like kings. Australia getting screwed on pricing is likely due to some goofball middle man system or taxing/tarriff scheme combined with island isolation surcharge(hawaii suffers this too). I wouldn't be surprised if their is some foreign software tax.