Australian Federal Communications Minister Senator Richard Alston was very vocal this week in his belief that Australia is "getting screwed" by internet carriers’ peering arrangements (with much of that screwing being done by the United States, apparently). Alston is allowed to be edgy; on the heels of a government meeting this week to determine how best to expedite the nation's broadband uptake, research firm Booz Allen released a survey reporting that Australia has the lowest rate of broadband adoption by businesses among the nine advanced economies they examined.