Well, if what I posted helped you~ you're welcome.

I ended up finding the same instruction elsewhere, but thank you anyway, and you too hsrob.

Sorry, bit rude of me not to acknowledge earlier.

Art of Balance now, 90s Arcade Racer and FAST Racing Neo later, as the devs of 90s said it might not even come to AU, and FRN will no doubt be months late just like AoB.

Ugh fuck me, I hate our BS anti-indie laws here

WHAT!? How are you doing it? Does it have any negative effects on the Wii U/lock the console on update?

See my post up above.  I've been doing this to buy games from the UK eshop since Trine 2 came out. 

I've encountere no adverse effects whatsoever.  Basically there is no hardware or software differences between the European and Australian WiiU.  It simply uses two bits of information to determine which version of the E-shop to connect you to. The nationality of your NNID and the console 'Country of Residence' that you nominate on setup, neither of these things are fixed.

I'm assuming the only thing stopping us from connecting to the US or Japanese e-shops is those countries aren't selectable (probably just a software mask) in the 'Country of Residence' on our consoles.

Cool, thanks.

One last question, where are you getting your eshop points from? I assume it wont accept local credit cards like my USA PSN account.

My Australian debit card worked just fine.

Cool. Now get the Netflix app and go to www.getflix.com.au if you haven't got Netflix already. Wii U i the best way to enjoy it IMO.

Does it? SWEET! Welp, goodbye monies. I barely knew ye.