Moses sandals!! That has been hit hard with the ugly stick!! Then again, Australia isn't known for it's design culture!!
Great comment coming from the country that produced the Fairey Gannet!
Form follows function rules in military aviation!! We also produced the Spitfire, the D type Jag, the E type Jag, Aston Martin DB5, Concorde, Lotus Elan, etc, etc, etc.
Standard Vanguard, Reliant, Triumph Mayflower, Lotus 7, absolutely any truck with "Scammell" on the front, with a "special mention" for the Scarab, & with aircraft, the Nimrod, the Miles Aerovan, & the Bristol freighter, this list avoiding some of the true aircraft horrors of the between-wars era!
As far as radios are concerned, when I visited the UK in 1971, I noticed some of the portable radios still current at the time, looked older & dowdier than first generation Oz "transistor radios" from the late 1950s/early 1960s!
Of course, the Brit manufacturers could argue that they were still "hanging in there", in the early '70s, as the Oz companies had succumbed to the influx of Japanese radios by then.