Re abundant Australians, I have also been surprised to see the number of members on the forum- there doesn't seem to be much of the new gear in the shops here- maybe a lonely K5/K30/Q cowering on the most obscure shelf if lucky, and little secondhand gear... On the other hand, I would love to spend some proper time in Scotland- have only spent one day in Edinburgh (February = sun, but icy and 'lazy' wind; i.e. too lazy to go around you, so goes straight through instead).
(that's supposed to be blue for 'cold', rather than green for 'about to throw up'!)
I have just been reading about the A3000 in the camera database- I wasn't familiar with it and was surprised to find it was introduced in 1984, as was the Program A- I thought auto-winding bodies didn't come until later.
The first 'new' lens I looked for after finding the Program A was a 24mm- I always thought 24mm would be a great focal length, but couldn't have afforded one originally. It took a while, but I eventually found a nice A 24 F2.8 and really do like the field of view it gives- nice colours too. Of course that led to wanting an even wider field of view- I had a look at a second-hand Sigma 15-30 zoom a while back in a shop here and was amazed at the angle of view at 15mm on full frame. Thought about it too long and it sold though. I do drool over the 15/3.5 (any version) in the lens review section occasionally... and a K 50 F1.4 came with the K2, which introduced me to the K-series lenses. It is superb, and great when light is limited.