Colonial institutions still rule Australia. Recognising this is not an act of pessimism: it is an epiphany | Larissa Behrendt

Systemic racism is not a glitch in our institutions, it is a design feature – and the seeds of it lie in our constitutionIn my years of reading reports, attending inquests and watching new inquiries restate old findings, I have asked myself the same question that haunts so many Indigenous lawyers, activists and academics: why does nothing change?The machinery of…