We could be guilty of reviewing this goal as external to a country like Australia, perceiving this to be about developing nations who produce the products and materials we import. But unfortunately the inequality of our First Nation’s people here at home is quite shocking.

Barbara Kruger’s artwork ‘I shop therefore I am’ is a testimony to our over consumption in a disposable society. Fast furniture and fit out churn-waste leave us with the question of what to do with unwanted furnishings other than sending them to landfill or incineration.