Lost opportunities: Prospects for a treaty

'Griffith review' is not, according to its 'Writers' Guidelines', an 'academic journal'. This leads me to pause and consider how I can establish what I want to be the starting point for this essay, which is that Australia cannot 'make peace and firmer ground for laws, policies and outcomes that improve Indigenous and non-Indigenous life' unless it accepts the need for Indigenous peoples to exercise a high degree of autonomy and govern their own affairs.