EA says Aussies will be treated to their own dedicated server which will be hosted locally. Players, however, will still be able to connect to North American servers should they wish to.

EA Mythic associate producer Josh Drescher told GameSpot AU that an Australian server had long been planned.

source

bloody great news imo.

Once they have signed a deal with a host, then I'll believe it. Until then its about as useful as concept art.

i would say that have signed a deal since they have always refused to comment on aussie servers until it was set in stone.

also ign has an interview

IGN AU: What can you tell us about Warhammer Online's local server?

Josh Drescher: The server will be located in the South East Asian region and will ensure that Australian and New Zealand players have the best WAR experience possible. We know there are tons of rabid MMO and Warhammer fans in the region and we know they're sick and tired of having to log on at 3:00 in the morning to play with their friends. We know this because we've been hearing from so many of them demanding Oceanic servers.

Holy crap. Local MMO servers :O

The server will be located in the South East Asian region

Singapore ? Vietnam ? Malaysia ? Indonesia ?
Bit hard to call India, Korea or Japan SE Asia, Certainly doesn't sound like Australia.

Holy crap. Local MMO servers

Ultima Online had them.

Ultima Online had them.

Key word here is "had".

I get about 190ms ping to ventrilo servers in singapore, so I don't imagine the ping to game servers there would be much better and I already get 190 - 200ms ping to WoW using internode's tunnel

hooray, but pitty I still won't play on an aus server has it would be dead during off peak

hooray, but pitty I still won't play on an aus server has it would be dead during off peak

Instead it would be dead during our peak hours?