Boz replied to me, for those Aussies here who might be curious he had this to say regarding Australian dates:
"never say never but it's only a 3 hour plane ride for you - much longer for me!"
So that either means there will be some and they just haven't been finalised yet so can't announce them .. or there won't be any. Basically giving us not much to work on
I guess to his credit his hands are kinda bound with what he can/can't give away. Surely if there were no plans for Australia at all or if they knew it wasn't happening they'd just say?
The 3 hour plane ride (or maybe 5 for me? Never been to NZ...) is true, but as I pointed out to him, I also don't have his finances to make it that easy, figures that the year I choose to go back to study and be a poor student for the first time in years is the year I could do with being employed full time to be able to go "screw it, I'll go to NZ for a show!" if he ignores Aus.
Once again I say, if we're left off, it'll be heart breaking
But pleased for all our Japanese and NZ fans here at least since they've been in the same boat as us for this long.