A mock-royal, poking fun at Prime Minister Robert Menzies for his proposed new Australian currency. The note appears to have been produced by students of the University of NSW to raise money for Aboriginal scholarships.
Royal debate over Aussie dollar
Next time you spend an Aussie dollar you might stop to consider that, if former prime minister Robert Menzies had gotten his way, you'd be handing over a "royal" instead. Menzies was famously pro-monarchy and pro-Britain. In 1963, welcoming the Queen in Parliament, he gave his much-quoted speech in which he said: Ma’am, there are a lot of interesting people in the world who like to discuss the Monarchy. There are clever people in the world, at least so I understand, who have discovered that all sorts of things ought to be done to the Monarchy,…
