I noticed today that Big W at QV in Melbourne is now stocking Malt Shovel kits. Well, the only variety they had was the two-row lager - but it was priced at $14.87 which is a fair bit less for a MS kit than I've seen it at any HBS. Hopefully they will start stocking other varieties of MS kits.
They also had a Malt Shovel starter pack for $52.87. I think it has been reviewed somewhere on this forum. It contained the 11.5 litre fermenter and enough stuff to get started (came with a can of MS Pale Ale). I thought the fermenter was interesting, it had a slight conical bottom to make reducing the sediment easier (so the blurb said), and something called a plinth which I think is the base for the fermenter to stand on.