Sadly Pete that is the price of having pubs without those #%cking blood sucking poker machines and an economy fed by bullshit mining wages which generate higher prices for everything.
It was a bit of a shock when I was there a couple of times in the last few years, certainly not a place to get pissed regularly at least not in WA pubs unless you have the bank balance of Gina Reinhart.
Food prices aren't a lot better.