The latest 5 dollar note features Queen Elizabeth II.
The latest 5 dollar note features Queen Elizabeth II.
Australia is a parliamentary monarchy, governed in the country by an elected Parliament and ruled over by the British monarch. Since 1952, that monarch has been Queen Elizabeth II. She appears on the 5 note because she is the Australian monarch.
The monarch that is on the Australian 5 note is Queen Elizabeth II. She is the current reigning queen of Great Britan and appears on all sorts of bills and coins in every country loyal to the British Crown.
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There is no bird on the Australian Ten Dollar note.
There is no bird on the Australian Ten Dollar note.
Australian two-dollar note was created in 1966.
Australian twenty-dollar note was created in 1966.
Queen Elizabeth II appears on the obverse of the Australian Five Dollar note. She is the nominal or titular head of state of Australia.
Animals do not feature on current Australian banknotes. The only animals appearing on current Australian banknotes are some horses on the Ten and One Hundred Dollar notes, and a camel on the Twenty Dollar note. There is also a stylised Lyrebrid on the hologram of the One Hundred Dollar note.
A sailing ship appears on the polymer Australian Twenty Dollar note on the side featuring Mary Reiby. Mary Reiby was transported to Australia as a convict and, after her release, married and became a pioneer business woman.
The "flower" on the reverse of the Australian Two Dollar note is wheat.