The late Queen Elizabeth II will not be featured on Australia’s five-dollar note going forward, instead, a new design that “honours the culture and history of the First Australians”—a term to refer to Aboriginal Australians—will replace the monarch.
The country’s five-dollar bill has featured the late Queen since 1992 and was due to be replaced with her son, King Charles III.
Yet on Feb. 2, the Reserve Bank of Australia announced the swap.
“The Reserve Bank has decided to update the $5 banknote to feature a new design that honours the culture and history of the First Australians. This new design will replace the portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The other side of the [five-dollar] banknote will continue to feature the Australian Parliament,” the Bank said in a statement….