Please read your original headline post again, and in particular the statement in question, and then my comment. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
In particular the statement focused on the need for governments to adopt new processes of consultation with Indigenous peoples based on collaboration and participation. (humanrights.gov.au)
That being said, Hugh and Joe have written follow up articles regarding the possible need for a Writers union and out of all of this, I clung to one particular statement of Joe Konrath's: «The only two groups required in a reader and writer relationship is the reader and the writer. (samulraney.com)