“Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliatio...” — Malcolm Fraser Quote

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

Politicians today are not highly regarded... there seem to be people young and old and in the middle saying that they have never heard such wretched debates.

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

I like to paint my own helmets. I design my own suit and boots, I like being unique in that way.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?