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Australia has some Internet Censorship issues (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral...), but I don't live there so not sure how bad it is on the ground.

When we're talking long term First World, Commonwealth etc. countries none seems to have as bad track record of Internet stewardship as Australia. It's also very expensive, they're at the extreme end of a few pipes.

Australian resident here, internet access is slow, overpriced (Example: $30AUDp/mo for 5GB including upload and downloads, after which you're slowed to 65kb/s until end of month), and seemingly constantly under threat of censorship or lawsuits against ISP's.

Allegedly the National Broadband Network currently rolling out will help alleviate the first two, but best case scenario leaves the latter hanging over our heads.

Australia wanted to block pictures of women with small boobs so they are out of the running

NZ recently passed a 3-strikes anti-piracy law: http://3strikes.net.nz/