24. Influencing Indigenous policy making with statistics
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Providing a brief concluding chapter to a very comprehensive and data-rich volume is a challenging task. This also proved to be the case in making some concluding comments to the conference on which this volume is based. In this final chapter, we seek to combine comments made in summing up the conference with some broad-brush attempts to encapsulate key issues that have been raised, both by conference delegates and by readers when this volume was peer reviewed.
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