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Committee presented its report in August 1960 and recommended the date of introduction of the new system to be the second Monday in February, 1963. In July 1961 the government confirmed its support of a decimal currency system, but considered it undesirable to make final decisions on the detailed arrangement that would be necessary to effect the change. On 7 April 1963 the government announced that a system of decimal currency was to be introduced into Australia at the earliest practicable date, and gave February 1966, as the tentative change-over date.
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700:, the exchange rate of the Australian dollar was fixed to the pound sterling at a rate of A$ 1 = 8 U.K. shillings (A$ 2.50 = UKÂŁ1). In 1967, Australia effectively left the sterling area, when the pound sterling was devalued against the US dollar and the Australian dollar did not follow. Instead, in 1971, Australia pegged the Australian dollar to the
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introduction of a gold bullion standard. This once again formally locked the
Australian pound to parity with the pound sterling. The return to the gold standard in association with its parity to the pound sterling, suddenly increased the Australian pound's value (imposed by the nominal gold price) which unleashed crushing
386:, Australia left the gold standard, resulting in a devaluation relative to sterling. Britain devalued the pound sterling against gold in 1931. A variety of pegs to sterling applied until December 1931, when the government set a rate of ÂŁ1 Australian = 16 shillings sterling (ÂŁ1 and 5s Australian = ÂŁ1 sterling).
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Braille dots for ease of use of the visually impaired. The first new banknotes (of the $ 5 denomination) were issued from
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Australian pound, for use in Pacific countries intended for occupation. Since Australia was never occupied, the occupation currency was not used there, but it was used in the captured parts of the then-Australian territories of
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Cabinet the decision had been a "terrible mistake" and it would need to be revisited. On 18 September Holt advised Parliament that the name was to be the
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issued a proclamation setting the value of the various foreign coins in the colony, though it did not solve the problem. During this period, to protect the lucrative access to the imported rum, as well as other grievances, the officers, who came to be known as the
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British gold coins, creating a
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72:). One very important British oversight during the colonization was the provision of adequate coinage for the new colony. In November 1788, Governor Phillip requested a remittance of money from England and sometime in 1790 the
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301:, making a pound worth 240 pence. The Act also prohibited the circulation of all State notes and demonetised them, giving full control over the issue of Australian notes to the
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