Much of my time as a community banker was spent lending to small businesses. In many banks today, small business lending is an automated process that relies on computers to analyze data and determine a borrower’s creditworthiness. For me, the process was personal. It involved sitting eyeball to eyeball across the table from my customer.
I say this because on one side it has the portrait of David Unaipon, a great Australian. David Unaipon was a Ngarrindjeri man born at Point McLeay in the Lower Murray Lakes and Coorong region and lived most of his life in South Australia. He was a great pioneer in many areas, pushing back against the injustice experienced by the Aboriginal people.