DATA ACCESSIBILITY AND BENEFIT-SHARING
Related metadata and code, including georeferences in decimal degrees and date/month/year of sampling event and unique sample identifier tags that can be matched to the deposited genetic data, is available in the online supplementary material and via the Dryad digital repository  https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.wstqjq2ss.  The genome assembly and raw transcriptome data will be made available under NCBI’s BioProject PRJNA1014961. The raw PacBio HiFi reads are publicly available from the Bioplatforms Australia Threatened Species Initiative: https://data.bioplatforms.com/organization/threatened-species. The assembled genome, global transcriptome, and genome annotation generated in this study are available on Amazon Web Services Australasian Genomes Open Data Store: https://awgg-lab.github.io/australasiangenomes/genomes.html.  
Benefits Generated: A research collaboration was developed between three academic institutions, a non-governmental organisation, state and federal governments and the local community on King Island. Results of the research will be used to directly inform conservation actions to help facilitate population recovery of the King Island scrubtit and will be used indirectly to help inform genetic management of other small, isolated animal populations both within Australia and globally. Additional benefits from this research accrue from the sharing of our data and results on public databases as described above.