Australia
Australia new date (2008) 10-dollar note confirmed
Oct 12, 2009 12:56 PM Category:
Oceania
10 dollars (US$9). Like Pick 58, but new date (20)08 and new signatures.
Courtesy of Kai Hwong.
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Australia new date (2008) 5-dollar note confirmed
Oct 11, 2009 03:26 PM Category:
Oceania
Australia new date (2008) 20-dollar note confirmed
Jun 30, 2009 06:04 PM Category:
Oceania
20 dollars (US$16.10), (20)08. Like Pick 59, but new date and new signatures (Glenn R. Stevens, Governor; Dr. Ken Henry, Secretary to the Treasury).
The Reserve Bank of Australia has apparently printed all denominations dated 2008, so all will eventually appear in circulation, though only the 20-, 50-, and 100-dollar notes have been confirmed to date.
Courtesy of Scott de Young.
Australia new date (2008) 100-dollar note confirmed
May 04, 2009 07:07 AM Category:
Oceania
Portrait on Australian $50 used without permission?
Dec 04, 2008 11:31 AM Category:
Oceania
According to a Telegraph article dated 28 November 2008, Allan "Chirpy" Campbell claims the Reserve Bank of Australia gained permission to use the image of celebrated indigenous author and inventor David Unaipon from a woman who was posing as his daughter, and did not obtain authorisation from a genuine family member.
"They jacked this woman up and proclaimed that she is the daughter of my uncle, and when we found out they blocked us and they chucked all the barricades there," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
"We are the family, I had to produce my genealogy, I had to produce my documents and documentation, they don't have to, they just say it, and they accepted it."
Mr Campbell, 61, travelled to Sydney this week to make his case for compensation to the Reserve Bank.
The bank, which has so far denied Mr Campbell's demands, refused to comment on the three-hour meeting, but made it known that it believes the appropriate advances to Mr Unaipon's family were made at the time the note was designed.
However, it is understood that those agreements were verbal and no official document of permission exists.
Mr Campbell, a lifelong campaigner for Aboriginal rights, has said he is willing to take the matter to court to obtain a "fair dinkum settlement". If successful, he plans to use the $30 million to start a charity for mentally ill children.
"They've got to renegotiate this time a proper settlement, not a tea leaf, sugar and flour syndrome, you know," he said.
"They've got no proof, no papers to show she is his daughter."
David Unaipon was Australia's first published indigenous author, an inventor and preacher from the Ngarrindjeri people of South Australia.
He held a patent for a sheep shearing mechanism that is depicted beside him on the $50 note.
In his work as a preacher, Mr Unaipon travelled widely and became well-known throughout Australia.
He lectured on Aboriginal legends and customs and also spoke of the need for "sympathetic co-operation" between whites and blacks, and for equal rights for all Australians.
He died in 1967. His image appeared on the $50 note from 1995 when the polymer bill was introduced.
The Unaipon case echoes the use, in 1966, of a bark painting by Arnhem Land artist David Malangi on the $1 note. It later emerged the artwork was reproduced without permission. Mr Malangi was compensated $1,000, a fishing kit and a silver medal.
Australia new date (2008) 50-dollar note confirmed
Nov 18, 2008 07:57 AM Category:
Oceania
Australia new date (2007) 20-dollar note confirmed
Nov 18, 2007 08:59 AM Category:
Oceania
New Zealand rejects common currency with Australia
Dec 02, 2006 10:05 AM Category:
Oceania
According to a December 6, 2006
article in The Dominion Post, New Zealand’s finance minister Dr.
Michael Cullen has rejected an Australian committee’s suggestion of
a common currency.
Australia’s House of Representatives standing committee on legal and constitutional affairs recently issued a report with a number of suggestions for harmonizing the legal and governmental systems of the two neighboring countries.
Dr. Cullen rejected the possibility of a a common dollar, saying “There’s no such thing as a common currency on the table and there never has been. The Australian Government has made it clear that if we wish to adopt their currency we can do so. There’s been a suggestion that New Zealand might adopt Australia’s currency—we are not going to do that.”
Both countries currently use dollars and cents, and the notes from both countries are printed on polymer in Australia. However, the Australian and New Zealand dollars trade separately and are not interchangeable.
Australia’s House of Representatives standing committee on legal and constitutional affairs recently issued a report with a number of suggestions for harmonizing the legal and governmental systems of the two neighboring countries.
Dr. Cullen rejected the possibility of a a common dollar, saying “There’s no such thing as a common currency on the table and there never has been. The Australian Government has made it clear that if we wish to adopt their currency we can do so. There’s been a suggestion that New Zealand might adopt Australia’s currency—we are not going to do that.”
Both countries currently use dollars and cents, and the notes from both countries are printed on polymer in Australia. However, the Australian and New Zealand dollars trade separately and are not interchangeable.
Australia new dates (2005 and 2006) confirmed
Dec 28, 2006 09:38 AM Category:
Oceania
5 dollars (US$3.95), (20)05. Like Pick 57, but new date. Signatures (I. Macfarlane, Governor; Henry, Secretary). Serial DD. Polymer.
10 dollars (US$7.90), (20)06. Like Pick 58, but new date. Signatures (I. Macfarlane, Governor; Henry, Secretary). Serial BH. Polymer.
20 dollars (US$15.80), (20)05. Like Pick 59, but new date. Signatures (I. Macfarlane, Governor; Henry, Secretary). Serial CJ. Polymer.
50 dollars (US$39.45), (20)05. Like Pick 60, but new date. Signatures (I. Macfarlane, Governor; Henry, Secretary). Serial HE. Polymer.
Australia’s Reserve Bank annual report findings
Sep 30, 2007 12:06 PM Category:
Oceania
Australia’s Reserve Bank annual report
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