Historically, data about Indigenous peoples have often been collected or used in ways that exclude Indigenous perspectives, reinforce deficit narratives, and provide limited benefit to communities.

Researchers and associated institutions in Government, universities and the private sector still lack guidance on the appropriate use of Indigenous-identified data in administrative datasets continuing to generate the above outcomes.

This project component develops a community-informed and endorsed standard for ethically and responsibly accessing, handling, analysing, interpreting and disseminating Indigenous administrative data in Australia.

Australia becomes an international leader in ethical data use, ensuring Indigenous peoples and communities directly benefit from how administrative data are accessed, analysed and reported.

This component is jointly undertaken by the University of Queensland (UQ), the Centre for Child Health Research (University of Western Australia), Australian National University, the National Centre for Healthy Aging and the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Work under this component is directed by an Indigenous Steering Committee and informed by an Indigenous Community Reference Group.

The team is led by:

Dr Danielle Armour (UQ)

Prof Francis Mitrou (UWA)