Medians & averages are different. You would not get two full time wage earners earning $1234pw. Remember, she said that they were earning ABOVE average wages EACH!!!
Yes, medians are more accurate as the average/mean is easily skewed by extremes. But my post was replying to sanj's post (above mine), not commenting on Kathryn's.
To answer whoever asked, the median household income in the Sydney metro area at the same time was $1447.
On second thoughts, my previous post about putting extra payments into our mortgage is not too shabby. It'd be paid off by the time I was 38 (on a current net combined income of 75k - house was bought for 450k) which is quite impressive considering I have colleagues at work in their mid 50s who still haven't done it. But travelling is so tempting