At the conclusion of the Commission's current
inquiry, the
federal government should also request the Commission, along with ATSIC and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to advise it on mechanisms to improve Indigenous data collection (taking into account the ABS»
broad strategy for improving data collection); as well as the feasibility of the ABS repeating the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey of 1994 on a regular basis; proposals for increased coordination and consistency of data collection at the national, state and territory level; and the cost implications of improved data collection.