so apple has banned the queues (perhaps the council said something. more likely the shopping centres where the apple stores are said something as other retailers probably shat the bag about it)
so what you have to do now is go to
www.apple.com.au/retail and click reserve ipad 2
each night at 9pm they will unlock allocation to be collected the next day.
Now, ok this sounds fine to most people but given what they did last year its still ridiculous as you have to hammer the website each day and hope.
Last year what you did was go in say you want an ipad, go to a computer, enter your details and the model you want and save the reserve. Then when it arrived and you were in that batch it emailed you. You had 48 hrs to pick it up after the email.
This is a much better system and i have no idea why apple won't do it this year. It stops people getting the shits with them.