On Monday, May 20, 2013, Don Sidlowski, founder of NWBDC, met with four members of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia. Currently on a broadband tour in the U.S. are Mr. Paul Weller MP, Mr. Geoff Howard MP, Mr. Andrew Katos MP, and Lilian Topic – the Executive Officer of the Rural and Regional Committee. With prior stops having been made in California and Washington (state) the team next visited the UW-Madison campus for a day-long program put on by the UW-Extension (UWEX) Center for Community Technology Solutions. Don’s segment with the members of parliament focused on a dozen discussion points dealing directly with broadband deployment and adoption in rural Victoria which, as it turns out, is not all that dissimilar in terms of remoteness and sparse population as Northern Wisconsin. Don spent two weeks in the State of Victoria some years ago, and so had a first-hand connection with the challenges facing the members of parliament in the build-out and adoption of broadband in their homeland.