"Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that"

This quote by Susan Oliver is describing a project that was proposed for Australia as a country. The job was meant to combine the cities and local centres of Australia, however unfortunately it did not come to fruition. Regardless of this, Oliver still believes that the job had prospective and could have been useful for the nation. She is recommending that the job must not be entirely disregarded, and that there is still value in the concept. This might be translated as a call for further expedition of the task, or for comparable projects to be proposed in the future. It is clear that Oliver believes that the task had potential, which it could have been advantageous for Australia as a nation.