"The MNL allowance is about 2000 pesos per day which on today's exchange rate, 38.6 PhP to the AuD, is $53 AuD."
"Last time I was there, year or so now, this was not enough to eat in the hotel. Basic breakfast was 15, lunch about 25 and dinner about 35 so no go."
The irony being that your daily expenses, which apparently are not acceptable to you, constitute the monthly income of most people living in the Philippines.
Such is life.