Most Expensive Taxi Rides

I have to go a suburb almost an hour away.  The taxi ride is $109 Aussie.  This is $143 Sin!  I remember taxi rides was cheap.  Today with the strong Aussie dollar, taxi rides today is incredibly expensive.  Exorbitant!  The taxi drivers must be making a good living.  They have to pay GST, income tax and rental.  I wonder how the residents survive paying so much for fares.