Good morning. A new Guardian Essential poll suggests that only one-third of Australian voters want a treaty, truth-telling commission or Indigenous voice. It comes as Anthony Albanese faces heat over his decision not to push ahead with a makarrata commission despite funding being set aside for it in the budget.

There are calls for stricter regulations targeting nutritional quality and deceptive labelling after a study found that no baby or toddler foods in Australian supermarkets meet World Health Organization standards.

Eight years out from the Brisbane Olympics we take a look at eight athletes who might pull on the green and gold to compete on home soil. And: a new discovery has scientists raising new hope of finding life on Mars.

The report from parliament’s inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and children is due this week, and for one Bourke family it’s another step on a long road for police accountability. Cindy Smith, a Wangkumara girl, and her cousin Mona Lisa Smith, a Murrawarri and Kunja girl, were both killed in a car crash in 1987. A drunk, white predator survived. Family members are still seeking justice for the girls after a decades-long struggle to discover the truth about the crash – and the investigation into it.

Justin Kurzel’s film Ellis Park, about the Bad Seeds and Dirty Three musician Warren Ellis and the animal sanctuary he founded in Indonesia with the activist Femke den Haas, is richly cinematic. The Australian auteur was never going to direct a paint-by-numbers talking heads fest. Instead, Guardian Australia’s film reviewer, Luke Buckmaster, finds that this documentary – much like its subject – moves to the beat of its own drum.

Three rare plants and an iconic whale species are on their way back from the brink of extinction, reports the Mercury. Sydney councils spent more than $23m on legal action in the land and environment court last year amid claims some developers are “jumping the queue”, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

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