Imagine discovering that the man who designed your bank's vault was a convicted forger, yet his face was chosen to represent the Australian Ten Dollar Note as a confident embrace of a complex colonial past. In this episode of pplpod, we explore the 1966 Currency Decimalization and the evolution of the Polymer Banknote through the structural archaeology of the Reserve Bank of Australia and the landmark legal disputes regarding Indigenous Cultural Rights and the architect Francis Greenway. Before the 1988 bicentennial, money was a fragile paper utility vulnerable to the rise of color photocopiers, but the transition to plastic transformed the crumpled cash in your pocket into a miniature museum exhibit. We unpack the "Comfort Blank ...