DH and I just paid $50 each for the whooping cough booster for ourselves (actually whooping cough, tetanus and diptheria all in one). DD won't get her first until she's 2 months old (then again at 4 months, 6 months, 4 years - I guess it's the same nationally). We're in Melbourne.

I was told that we could get it cheaper if we went along to the local council for our shots when DD has hers. I don't know how much cheaper that would be, but I didn't want to wait for another 6 weeks before her parents were protected, because it's definitely in the community and I gather that an adult can have it and not even realise they have it, and then pass it onto a baby, for whom it is a dangerous disease. Not a risk we wanted to take.