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Keira Jenkins

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Remote communities still lagging in digital world | History Defined

Significant barriers remain for Indigenous people living in remote area to access the digital world. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)

Three-quarters of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the most remote parts of the country are digitally excluded, a study has found.

The Mapping the Digital Gap report found Indigenous people are twice as likely to face barriers to accessing, affording and using the internet, with those hurdles higher in remote Australia.

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