I'm sure we can all agree that primes and zooms have their places... which is why Canon makes a lot of money from me (14L, 24L, 17-40L, 24-105L, etc)
Mike, my understanding re warranty is that Canon will only provide warranties to cameras bought wholesale through Canon Australia - i.e. they won't cover grey-market importers such as the Hong Kong based eBay stores. Some of these stores will also purposely undervalue the shipment to avoid GST (sometimes gets caught, sometimes doesn't).
Canon used to have international warranty on lenses/flashes/etc, but unfortunately they recently scrapped that it's the same as digital bodies.