Being an Australian myself i was somewhat annoyed at not being able to play when the game was released so i looked long and hard for a way to get into the game.
many people just ordered a copy from amazon.com however this is not what i wanted because the game wont get here for some weeks after its released.
anyway long story short i found a proxy server that was able to mask my location and use ssl in the us.
USA Proxy server 72.52.96.30 Port 80
EU Proxy server 88.220.37.150 Port 8080
Full List of proxy servers able to do this task. http://tools.rosinstrument.com/cgi-bin/fp.pl/showlines?filter=HTTPS&lines=200&sortor=3
make it so it uses that proxy and port for all and then go to swtor.com and follow the pre-order links.
Dablackfox
http://www.swtor.com/community/member.php?u=553140
Cant wait to see you all ingame.
Ps im the guild leader for notorious-avenger so feel free to join my guild on the swtor website or add my guild as an alliance or Adversary guild to yours.
http://www.swtor.com/guilds/168252/notorious-avenger