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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Josh Taylor

Reserve Bank offered treasurer the choice to have King Charles on Australia’s $5 banknote

Australian $5 banknotes with portrait of Queen Elizabeth
Australian $5 banknotes with the portrait of Queen Elizabeth. The new $5 note will honour Indigenous culture rather than her son, King Charles III. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/REX/Shutterstock

The Reserve Bank of Australia offered the federal treasurer, Jim Chalmers, a choice of whether the new $5 note should feature King Charles III or a design that honours Indigenous history, documents reveal.

Earlier this month the RBA announced that King Charles would not replace his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on the banknote and instead it would feature a design honouring the history or culture of First Nations people.

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