Category: 2019

Overall, Australia’s Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) migrant population records a relatively high level of digital inclusion, with above average levels of Access, Affordability and Digital Ability.

Research conducted in the remote community of Pormpuraaw in far north QLD indicates that digital inclusion for Indigenous Australians further diminishes with remoteness, particularly in relation to Access and Affordability.

The NBN was designed to reduce the digital disadvantage of regional and remote Australia. The Index shows that it has made a positive difference. But the NBN’s long term effects on Australia’s digital inclusion performance are likely to be complex, and its capacity to meet the future data and network requirements will depend on further investment.