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Keira Jenkins

UNCOVERED: Free public wi fi gamechanger for remote communities - The Untold Story

Remote communities are gaining access to the internet through a government scheme. (Dan Peled/AAP PHOTOS)

Remote communities across the country will have free public wi-fi available under a federal government plan aimed at ensuring digital inclusion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 

Twenty-three communities in the Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia have signed up for the $20 million program, which Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy said was an important step in "narrowing the digital divide".

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