This report outlines updated findings from a second research visit to Wilcannia, situated on the banks of the Darling River in western New South Wales.

Finding collaborative ways to fund improvements and encourage greater sharing of mobile phone infrastructure to provide better and more competitive access to digital services across regional and remote Australia is the focus of this report.

The Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory assert that the Community Development Program is based on the wrong foundations. It doesn’t address the most fundamental problem in remote Australia, which is the lack of jobs in remote communities.

This report evaluates six First Nations health programs designed to improve access to care in rural, regional and remote areas. It finds the programs are generally effective and outlines recommendations for improvement. The report details the evaluation’s objectives, methods and findings, offering further suggestions for program improvement and broader system change.

The Mapping the Digital Gap project, established through the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), in partnership with Telstra in 2021, is the first comprehensive study of remote First Nations communities’ participation in, and access to, the digital economy. This report provides an update on the research conducted to date.