The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are truly functional, Australia will be as beautiful in its own way as classical Greece.

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.

Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.