In light of the recent results in this country for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, this book is more important than ever to help us make sense of the systemic racism that lurks not too deeply beneath the veneer of a fair go for all. The colonial foundations of this country have privileged white people at every stage of history and into the present day. This astutely observed book and its thorough and unrelenting research reminds us of why we were doomed to fail our Indigenous people.