The HC Coombs Policy Forum in conjunction with the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at The Australian National Univeristy (ANU) organised a small high-level workshop aimed at identifying creative use of new and extant data on Indigenous Australians. The data gaps identified at the 2011 CAEPR conference on ‘Social Science Perspectives on the 2008 National and Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS)’ need to be addressed, and effective policies developed, informed by peer reviewed findings arising from any creative analysis.