Typical European bias. Aust have qualified first for the World Cup by finishing top of the Asian Group along with Japan, North and South Korea, the later being a recent semi finalist.
NZ are in the Oceanic Confederation (which Aust left for Asia just after the last World Cup). We qualified from this Confederation last time after defeating Uraguay home and away in a final qualifier. We made it to the 2nd round where we were robbed by a dive by an Italian that Drogba would be proud of deep into injury time. Not bad for an alleged wee team. (Actuially I heard we were ranked 14 recently)
The World Cup is just that - not the European Cup.