Sydney: Australia has decided to remove the image of the late British Queen Elizabeth from its currency.
It has also been decided that the image of the current King Charles III should not be replaced by the image on the five-dollar note. The image of the country’s leaders will henceforth be printed on the currency. The discussion for this has started.
In Australia, by law, the image of the British ruler is mandatory on coins. However, the image of Elizabeth was inscribed on the five-dollar notes as a tribute to her. This is what changes. Since the death of Elizabeth, there has been a strong demand to free Australia from the status of a country under the British monarchy.
Even as Australian MPs declared their allegiance to the new British monarch on Tuesday, the demand for an Australian republic rose. The position of the country’s center-left government is that the Australian president should be the head of the country. Meanwhile, Charles III was officially declared head of state in Papua Guinea.
