The Top End heads to the polls this Saturday. In a territory that has been both over-governed and neglected, there’s little on offer for Indigenous communities.

Decades of Treaty scholarship have failed to arrive at a consensus about its meaning and purpose. Dispensing with various mistaken interpretations would improve the chances of productive discussion.

Like many other institutions, Scouts is caught in an awkward gap between tradition and modernity, as society grapples with colonial figures who were heroes to some, but not others.