a little irrevelant but there is a guy in Central Coast (between Newcastle and Sydney) that offers the service of fully importing a machine for $500 up to the vlalue of $5k. The $500 includes everything and you just go and pick it up from his property - down side you have to be within a couple of hours travel to be an advantage.

I don't agree with only one distributor in the country, there should be an allowance for one in each state, just like in the US there are heaps of distributors across the country, more distributors means a better price and a local guy to deal with. And personal don't see that it has to be a shop front, as it could be a small warehouse and display area, which is similar to what AMD is.