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The tradition of printing faces and images of famous personalities and
places is a practice followed by every country. This gives an identity
to the notes of the particular nation and makes it different from
others. Australian currencies have different faces printed on them and
they vary from note to note. The personalities who are featured on the
currency notes are:
People featured on $5 note
The mostly circulated note in Australia has the image of the state on
it and other versions of the denomination have:
Sir Henry Parkes - Better known as the 'Father of Federation’,
the charge for federation was led by Parkes from 1891 to 1896 when he
died. He was the Premier of New South Wales between 1872 and 1891 and
was also a politician, ivory turner and journalist. Parkes in Canberra
and the town of Parkes in New South Wales were named after Parkes.
Catherine Helen Spence - Catherine played a significant role
to make South Australia the first Australian colony to give women the
voting right. This Scottish-born lady was a women activist in Australia
in the 1800s and made her name as the first women preacher. She got many
book published on social law and regional history.
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