**4. Conclusions**

Much progress has been made in the provision of information but there are a number of immediate challenges—and opportunities. A central lesson of the past is that for information to achieve its potential, it has to be used and used in a way which links policy, funding, implementation, monitoring and evaluation in a continuous policy/planning cycle, and that cycle has ye<sup>t</sup> to be instituted in a systematic way across all levels of service delivery, governmen<sup>t</sup> and communities. There is now the potential for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to be not just partners but leaders in the design, collection and use of information, but this also requires a concerted effort to train Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders for those tasks and responsibilities.

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, I.R.; methodology, I.R., K.G.; writing—original draft preparation, I.R., K.G.; writing—review and editing, I.R., K.G. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** Not applicable.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Not applicable.

**Data Availability Statement:** Not applicable.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
