ABSTRACT

Contents 6.1 Introduction .............................................................................................107 6.2 A Narrowing but Deepening Divide ........................................................108 6.3 Broadband Policy and the Geographic Divide .......................................... 110 6.4 Big Country, Big Network ....................................................................... 111 6.5 Indigenous Australians and Access in Remote Australia........................... 115

6.5.1 Internet Adoption and Indigenous Australians ............................. 116 6.5.2 Broadband and Indigenous Disadvantage ..................................... 117 6.5.3 Implications of the Mobile Divide ................................................ 119

6.6 Conclusion ...............................................................................................120 Endnotes ...........................................................................................................121