not to burst your bubble here but I am currently following another Australian forum, and there are plenty others who have bought SGN from the same company:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1797269
skimming through it again I can find over 10 people here who have confirmed their payment, obviously bearing in mind that it would be a higher number considering that not everyone who bought one would comment.
this would mean that shipping might be a couple of weeks after the actual release, but yeah your assumption about us being the first few to own it is pretty dead on