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Apparently not : http://www.mobicity.com.au/lg-nexus-5.html

If Nokia sold an N900 with OVI Maps for Australia bundled with the phone (like they do now with various Symbian phones) and with 2100/900 3G bands for Vodafone Australia, I would seriously jump on it as my next phone.

Ovi Maps comes free with the N900 and has Australian maps available. The frequencies you mentioned seem to be supported, according to the wikipedia article. And the N900 is available here, though it is a little pricey.
I have one and couldn't be happier with it.

Heck Google does almost no advertising just sells the phone in three countries and then everyone expects that the phone sells like hotcakes. The entire EU except Britain for instance cannot get it the same goes for Asia and the rest of the world is left out as well.

Are you referring to the Nexus One or Android in general.

In either case you are wrong, if the UK can get the N1 under EU trade laws anyone in Europe can get The N1. In fact if it's being sold in the UK and it is, anyone in the world apart from a few special nations like Iran and North Korea can buy it if they have the money.

The Nexus One in Hong Kong.
The Nexus One in The United Kingdom.
The Nexus One in Australia.

If I can buy it from HK, I can get it anywhere in Asia, if I can buy it from the UK I can get it anywhere in Europe. The whole idea behind the N1 is that we can finally become separated from this damned telco control over handsets and software (yet Vodafone are in negotiations with Google to release worldwide).

BTW, there are more Android handset then the N1, take a look around the Expansys and MobiCity web sites, also try clove but they aren't offering the N1 just yet. I bought my Motorola Milestone from Expansys UK (non EU residents don't pay VAT, about 70 Pounds less for me) so they do deliver internationally.

Then if you look at iPhone OS, that has been highly, highly optimized. An iPhone 3GS with a 600MHz CPU outperforms a Nexus One with a 1000MHz CPU. The iPhone 3G with a 400MHz CPU outperforms a Palm Pre with 600MHz CPU

Citation needed? I think you'll find that Iphone only appears to outperform Android because Android is doing a lot more then the Iphone. Further more many things that work on Android do not work on Iphone, slashdot for instance works fine on my HTC Dream or newer Motorola Milestone with the standard browser, it works even better with Dolphin browser.

This cannot be a fair comparison until the Iphone can do everything that Android phones can, unless you want to compare functionality where Iphone is an epic failure.

Those optimizations are part of the reason why Apple is currently undercutting both Android and Palm on price,

Now I can tell you're full of it. All prices are incl of local taxes, and UK VAT does not apply outside the EU for those in Australia, Canada and the US.

UK Expansys
Motorola Milestone GBP 379
Nexus 1 GBP 599
Iphone 32 GB GBP 799

AU Mobicity
Motorola Milestone A$659
Nexus 1 A$849
Iphone 16 GB A$959

The cheapest Iphone 3GS available is A$100 more expensive then the newer Motorola Milestone (droid for the Yanks) and Google Nexus One. Not to mention that both the Milestone and Nexus One can do more as well as lack the restrictions of the Iphone. But then again I suspect you were merely looking to confirm your quite obvious bias rather then do an accurate comparison.

Apple's operating systems are not very well optimised, not even as much as Windows operating systems, Apple's OS pretend to have optimisation by providing the OS with more hardware then it needs and limiting functionality to prevent any perceived loss of speed. Most people using a Mac or Iphone rarely use the full power of the hardware, ergo an un-optimised OS goes unnoticed by the user. Here is the core of the design (in an engineering perspective) a design does not have to work well, it just has to work. The vast majority of people will ignore tiny flaws if they can get the task done, OTOH if a computer doesn't do the task the user will get annoyed no matter how pretty the interface.

As a good developer friend of mine likes to say, "If given the choice, a user will press the 'I just want it to work today' button". OSX provides this very shiny button but only in a few select places, Windows provides this not so shiny button almost everywhere. This is why Windows is still the number one OS on the planet.

Then if you look at iPhone OS, that has been highly, highly optimized. An iPhone 3GS with a 600MHz CPU outperforms a Nexus One with a 1000MHz CPU. The iPhone 3G with a 400MHz CPU outperforms a Palm Pre with 600MHz CPU

Citation needed? I think you'll find that Iphone only appears to outperform Android because Android is doing a lot more then the Iphone. Further more many things that work on Android do not work on Iphone, slashdot for instance works fine on my HTC Dream or newer Motorola Milestone with the standard browser, it works even better with Dolphin browser.

This cannot be a fair comparison until the Iphone can do everything that Android phones can, unless you want to compare functionality where Iphone is an epic failure.

Those optimizations are part of the reason why Apple is currently undercutting both Android and Palm on price,

Now I can tell you're full of it. All prices are incl of local taxes, and UK VAT does not apply outside the EU for those in Australia, Canada and the US.

UK Expansys
Motorola Milestone GBP 379
Nexus 1 GBP 599
Iphone 32 GB GBP 799

AU Mobicity
Motorola Milestone A$659
Nexus 1 A$849
Iphone 16 GB A$959

The cheapest Iphone 3GS available is A$100 more expensive then the newer Motorola Milestone (droid for the Yanks) and Google Nexus One. Not to mention that both the Milestone and Nexus One can do more as well as lack the restrictions of the Iphone. But then again I suspect you were merely looking to confirm your quite obvious bias rather then do an accurate comparison.

Apple's operating systems are not very well optimised, not even as much as Windows operating systems, Apple's OS pretend to have optimisation by providing the OS with more hardware then it needs and limiting functionality to prevent any perceived loss of speed. Most people using a Mac or Iphone rarely use the full power of the hardware, ergo an un-optimised OS goes unnoticed by the user. Here is the core of the design (in an engineering perspective) a design does not have to work well, it just has to work. The vast majority of people will ignore tiny flaws if they can get the task done, OTOH if a computer doesn't do the task the user will get annoyed no matter how pretty the interface.

As a good developer friend of mine likes to say, "If given the choice, a user will press the 'I just want it to work today' button". OSX provides this very shiny button but only in a few select places, Windows provides this not so shiny button almost everywhere. This is why Windows is still the number one OS on the planet.

Then if you look at iPhone OS, that has been highly, highly optimized. An iPhone 3GS with a 600MHz CPU outperforms a Nexus One with a 1000MHz CPU. The iPhone 3G with a 400MHz CPU outperforms a Palm Pre with 600MHz CPU

Citation needed? I think you'll find that Iphone only appears to outperform Android because Android is doing a lot more then the Iphone. Further more many things that work on Android do not work on Iphone, slashdot for instance works fine on my HTC Dream or newer Motorola Milestone with the standard browser, it works even better with Dolphin browser.

This cannot be a fair comparison until the Iphone can do everything that Android phones can, unless you want to compare functionality where Iphone is an epic failure.

Those optimizations are part of the reason why Apple is currently undercutting both Android and Palm on price,

Now I can tell you're full of it. All prices are incl of local taxes, and UK VAT does not apply outside the EU for those in Australia, Canada and the US.

UK Expansys
Motorola Milestone GBP 379
Nexus 1 GBP 599
Iphone 32 GB GBP 799

AU Mobicity
Motorola Milestone A$659
Nexus 1 A$849
Iphone 16 GB A$959

The cheapest Iphone 3GS available is A$100 more expensive then the newer Motorola Milestone (droid for the Yanks) and Google Nexus One. Not to mention that both the Milestone and Nexus One can do more as well as lack the restrictions of the Iphone. But then again I suspect you were merely looking to confirm your quite obvious bias rather then do an accurate comparison.

Apple's operating systems are not very well optimised, not even as much as Windows operating systems, Apple's OS pretend to have optimisation by providing the OS with more hardware then it needs and limiting functionality to prevent any perceived loss of speed. Most people using a Mac or Iphone rarely use the full power of the hardware, ergo an un-optimised OS goes unnoticed by the user. Here is the core of the design (in an engineering perspective) a design does not have to work well, it just has to work. The vast majority of people will ignore tiny flaws if they can get the task done, OTOH if a computer doesn't do the task the user will get annoyed no matter how pretty the interface.

As a good developer friend of mine likes to say, "If given the choice, a user will press the 'I just want it to work today' button". OSX provides this very shiny button but only in a few select places, Windows provides this not so shiny button almost everywhere. This is why Windows is still the number one OS on the planet.

I'll tell you why I desperately want an Android phone, but won't buy one. It's because the carriers have locked-down what is supposed to be a "free, open source, and fully customizable mobile platform".

Buy a HTC Dream or Magic unlocked from here or here, root and install Cyanogen mod on it. You still have to use a telco that has a 2100 MHz HSDPA 3G network but that's your problem, you have a free, open source and fully customisable mobile platform. If you dont like doing the work yourself then you are stuck with whatever the carrier chooses and again that's your problem.