Most of us design for money — but how many of us can say they’ve had a chance to design money? Originally asked to judge entrants to design the commemorative bicentennial $10 note, designer Harry Williamson asked instead to join the running.

“Of course, I can’t even enter into this conversation without mentioning the iPhone,” says Doug Maloney, head of products and services at 3 mobile. “What a real change that has introduced to the market, even just in understanding what the word ‘applications’ means or the idea that you can put an application on your mobile phone.”

Despite being as close to Bali as they are to Bathurst, WA has embraced the technology age as avidly as the rest of Australia.