Bondi Junction needs a facelift, no doubt, writes Elizabeth Farrelly. But in the public spaces - not more malls. But I reckon it's shopping. Of all the last century's much-vaunted innovations, leisure is the biggest and broadest.
Shopping is now our main cultural activity.
But not just any old shopping. When it comes to shopping we vote with our feet, and our feet go for the packaging every time. But Oxford Street, Bondi Junction, right at the top topographically, is the pits. It is not just tired. In the way of the times, though, it's not the public spaces that'll be getting the treatment.