Blizzard can't do anything about this, it's up to major communications companies to improve the situation. In terms of setting up an Australian realm, Blizzard knows what their sales figures are all over the world. If they were selling anywhere near the amount of copies in Australia that they do in Korea, they would have an Australian server. They don't feel the demand in that area is sufficient to make the expense and effort of setting up a Realm there worth it. And that goes for the other areas people often ask for a Realm in, such as Africa, South America, elsewhere in Europe, etc.
Economic realities sink in their sharp teeth.
Overall weapon classes, such as Swords, will not gain the same type of monster class bonus that other already have, such as blunt weapons gaining additional damage against Undead. This might be brought back in the Expansion, which wouldn't be a bad thing, as Axes are quite unused now, and if they did more damage to Demons that would help. We of course lack a full listing of Demons now, but we know that all of the Act bosses were to be them in D2. Here is a screenshot of an Elite Class item. The screenshot if of a Crusader Bow, and you can view it here .