Our guest in this episode is Jill Garner who is at the time of recording the Victorian Government Architect. Jill was also a founder of the architecture firm Garner Davis Architects who design private homes as well as large scale public projects. Jill has a unique perspective on architecture competitions having taken part in them through her own practice and also through running large scale architectural competitions for the Victorian State government. In this interview, Jill shares how the government uses architecture competitions, design champions in government, how architecture practices take on major competitions, the culture of competitions in Australia and abroad, and what Jill went through when she ran the Future Homes Competition. Our interviewer in this episode is Cassia Ward who is an EmAGN committee member based in Victoria.