Rob Reacts to... Secrets of the Australian Dollar
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Big ben is the bell not the clock
@@jamesgreenshade6065 my point was the tower is not big Ben, it's the Elizabeth tower.
@@RobReacts1 C'mon mate! React to the Aussies, not the local pedants... LOL!
Humblebrag alert! There's an interesting thread on Sir John Monash (Mr $100) below, if you choose to scroll down...
Rob the beards looking nice and thick but you need to shorten it up a little its starting to looking like your growing a beard because you can't ontop.
As for our notes your only seeing 1 side in this video as both side are different on each note, I'll admit I didn't take aussie notes as anything special until I found out basically the rest of the world was some generic note ie size, feel difference for the blind and different colours for the low vision.
Edith Cowan was Western Australian and held the seat of West Perth. The fun fact is the person she defeated was Attorney General Thomas Draper, the MP that introduced the bill that allowed her to stand for election in the first place.
I think that Rob has conflated the stories of Edith Cowan, the first woman member of Federal Parliament and Catherine Helen Spence, from SA, who campaigned for women's suffrage and eventually saw that achieved in 1894.
Banjo Paterson (1864-1941) was Australia’s most famous poet in the 19th and early 20th century. Penned ‘The Man From Snowy River’, ‘Waltzing Matilda’, ‘Clancy of the Overflow’, Mulga Bill’s Bicycle’ and so much more, much of it humorous. Great stuff! He was also a lawyer.
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,
He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,
Just ‘on spec’, addressed as follows, ‘Clancy, of The Overflow’.
And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,
(And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar)
‘Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it:
‘Clancy’s gone to Queensland droving, and we don’t know where he are.’
. . . . .
In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy
Gone a-droving ‘down the Cooper’ where the Western drovers go;
As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing,
For the drover’s life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.
And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him
In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,
And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
And at night the wond’rous glory of the everlasting stars.
. . . . .
I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy
Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,
And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city
Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all
And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle
Of the tramways and the ‘buses making hurry down the street,
And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting,
Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.
And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me
As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste,
With their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy,
For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.
And I somehow rather fancy that I’d like to change with Clancy,
Like to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go,
While he faced the round eternal of the cash-book and the journal-
But I doubt he’d suit the office, Clancy, of ‘The Overflow’.
@@davidwaining1032
“And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
And at night the wond’rous glory of the everlasting stars”
My favourite of all
Surprisingly you didn't mention the old blue ten had the man from snowy River in small print
A Bush Christening is my favourite. Tells the story of a boy who thinks getting christened means getting branded so he runs away and hides. "... if the man in the frock made him one of the flock, it must mean something very like branding."
Followed closely by The Man from Ironbark about a man from the bush who visits the city and goes to a barber shop to have his beard shaved.
And Saltbush Bill, a drover who let his sheep spread to eat the lush grass of a station they were passing through. The station's jackaroo tried to herd them back onto the barren track so Bill picked a fight with him that he kept going all day, allowing the flock to again spread and graze, then Bill gave up and let the jackaroo win. "... And Saltbush Bill, on the Overland, will many a time recite
, How the best day's work that he ever did was the day that he lost the fight."
The first lines of the poem appears in Microprint on the Australian $10 banknote can be seen using a magnifying glass.
The reason why they skipped the 20 and went straight to the 50 was due to a huge amount of counterfeit 50s around they ended up doing a complete removal of the old 50s due to how many were counterfeit and how hard it was to know quickly if it was a counterfeit or not.
oh wow that makes sense.
They were counterfeit by a group who worked for the company that prints the notes. I was working at a bank when they first notified us of it. The only way to tell is if you have 2 notes with the same serial number next to each other.
@@andrewstewart01 damn that’s kinda scary someone could do that
Fun fact: one of the reasons we have a kangaroo and EMU on our coat of arms, if because both those animals cannot walk backwards. So it's symbolises moving forward while showing two Aussie animals
Yeah, we don't need our animals to walk backwards, we have an entire government to do that.
I thought it was because they lost a war with the emus 😂
All of the polymer bank notes are actually produced for their country by Australia and if I remember correctly our CSIRO still holds the patent world wide for these notes, we are producing them for 19 countries currently.
What you may have missed from the video is that it took the royal mint from 1968 through 1988 to perfect the technology about 20 years. Now it is either licenced to other countries or Australia prints the money for other countries.
Have a squiz.. the 1st mass production plastic made for $10 note was in my plant..I.C.I , Matraville , Australia ( LFX 16 ) to be exact...late 80's early 90s...
Minor corrections, 1st the Royal mint doesn't print notes & never has. It was the Note Printing Branch & later Note Printing Aust who does. 2nd, the polymer or substrate wasn't introduced until the late 80's. The polymer technology wasn't been considered in the late 60's or early to mid 70's.
The Polymer note research was by the CSIRO, which is responsible for many of Australia's greatest inventions.
Hey Rob, the tactile feature for vision impaired is the raised dot(s). 1,2,3,4,5 raised dots for the 5/10/20/50/100 respectively. This video didn't mention, but the denominations also vary in physical size, 5 being the smallest, 100 the largest note. This was a 'tactile' feature of the old series.
The old series is still very common in circulation due to the life span, and the mint won't release more new series until the old are destroyed. i.e. one old $20 out means one new can be released.
He didn’t mention it, but Aussie banknote denominations are also slightly different lengths. The $5 is the smallest at 65mm by 130mm, the largest is the $100 at 65mm by 158mm.
That because it helps blind people to know which note is which
NOT ONLY THAT, but i think that they are slightly different thinkness
Beat me to it... Australian notes (and coins) are all tactility different mak8ng them distinguishable to people with impaired vision.
and the $1 coin is larger than the $2 coin
@@vampyresgraveyard3307 and they have braille on them too.
My brother-in-law worked for the Reserve Bank many years ago. He said when the polymer notes are taken out of circulation due to damage etc they are recycled into black compost bins and similar items.
Big Ben is the name of the largest bell in the Elizabeth tower.
The new $50 note was released with a spelling error in the micro text on the Edith Cowan side of the note (“responsibilty” instead of “responsibility”). The error was only discovered after millions of dollars worth had been printed and put into circulation. So whilst they have now corrected the mistake, the erroneous notes are still in circulation with no plans to officially recall them.
Also, you can use polymer banknotes as a stylus on a record. Get yourself a crisp new note and lightly touch the corner onto a spinning record, the music will vibrate up though the note. It may not be the best sounding audio you’ve ever heard, but a great party trick nonetheless!
My point was that a lot of people think big ben is the actual tower.
Hi Rob, Big Ben refers to the large bell in Elizabeth Tower, rather than the clock. Australia has printed polymer bank notes for 19 countries.
Rob. I THINK. Wisto.nAnd. The. Queen. The. Story. When. She. Became. The. Queen.
He. Was. Her. First. Prime. Minister.
1988 I was in Hawaii & broke. I had taken those Bicentennial Notes to try & flog them for a profit. I ended up taking them to the bank of Hawaii to exchange them. I got 90c / USD & the teller had to call the bank manager to verify them LOL. You can feel & see the Braille raised dots for the blind that helps them to buy stuff with the right note. Many countries use these Polymer notes now & there has been a huge reduction in counterfeiting as a result. Also the life span of notes has increased two - ten fold.
It’s time Rob for you and Charlie to have a good look of what Australia has to offer when you come down in September. This is what your getting yourself in for.
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I hope you have a really awesome time downunder, Rob and Charlie. Most people from overseas are astonished by the size of the place and how developed the cities are as well as the ability to get anything. Foods from all over the world, fine fashion, five star hotels and good infrastructure in most places, except the outback which can take 18 hours of non-stop travel to get to from the coast.
I love that our bank notes are different colours, and also that they can go through the washing machine and still be fine.
Unfortunately the notes don't stay in my possession long enough for me to appreciate their beauty.
You're missing out.
In the 1980s the Mabo land rights case was very much in the minds of Australians. So reconciliation was very much at the forefront of the minds of the designers for the first $10 note even though the Reconciliation effort at the time left a lot to be desired.
I got that vibe too
The current artwork seen in Australian passports is out of this world too!
Here in Australia, the regulation for our currency state the Queens image must appear on our lowest value note. When paper notes this was the 1 Dollars, as with had 1 and 2 dollar notes. With the shift to polymer we phased in 1 and 2 dollar coins with 5 Dollar note now being the lowest. All other notes can have what ever design on either side.
The Australian mint also makes the plastic notes for other countries in South East Asia
Banjo Paterson is an Australian bush poet one of his most famous poems is the Man from Snowy River
Our $5 note still has Her Majesty on one side. Our most recent banknotes are absolutely wonderful very colourful and glorious artwork. They are also full of history.
The paper version of the $10 was minus the Queen too
@@geoffmerritt As far as Australian bank notes go - The monarch's image was only on the £1 note then when decimal currency came in to being HM's image was placed on the $5 note only.
The Queen's portrait also appears on the New Zealand and Canadian $20 polymer banknotes.
Sir John Monash is an interesting character. He planned and directed key battles in World War I which are credited with turning the tide of the war in favour of the British. He changed the way warfare was conducted, for instance by having soldiers advance behind tanks, instead of in front of them. He was also the last person to be knighted by the king in the field of battle. Sadly, he did not always get the recognition or promotion he deserved, possibly because he was Jewish. After the war, he dedicated himself to the well being of returned soldiers.
Arguably the greatest ever Australian in our short history. He was appointed head of the newly united Australian forces on the Western Front, and became a key tactical architect of the final push to Allied victory.
Unsurprsingly (in hindsight), Rupert Murdoch's father, Sir Keith Murdoch, opposed his promotion on the basis that the Jewish were self-promoters of little substance.
He remains the last general of any Commonwealth nation to be knighted in the field.
As well as being an advocate for returned servicemen, he returned to Australia to become the head of Victoria's State Electricity Commission and eventually Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.
In Victoria, he has a university, a federal electorate, a local council, a freeway and a hospital all named in his honour.
Nuff said...
He died in 1931, and his state funeral included an estimated 300,000 mourners. Melbourne's population at that time, at the height of the depression, was around 1 million...
The great thing - 80% of the Aussie population lives in coastal areas - you swim with it at the beach and then can buy a beer at the pub later without your notes disintegrating...
Spot on Rob. They are works of Art. We take them for granted. The other aspect is they are all different sizes too. The $1 and $2 notes were phased out in the mid 80's and around the same time 1c and 2c coins stopped production. 5c remains and all amounts are rounded down or up to the nearest 5c. $10.02c is rounded down to $10 and $10.03 rounded up to $10.05. The old 1c and 2c pieces were dull brown and strangely enough the $1 coin is larger than the $2, both gold in colour.
The $50's were replaced first due to counterfeiting as mentioned as a lot of cash transactions were done in drug deals.
Compared to your notes, well...put in this way, they look like they've been through the wash a few 100 times...
$A's are good souvenirs though we prefer if you spend them. 1 thing in your favour is your currency is always going to get good value in Australia. Currently 1 pound buys $A1.75.
Sir John Monash was one of the 1WWs best generals if not the best so that needed a correction lol . He is worth a look if you get a chance
It's because we're a nation of too many drunks, prone to drunkenly throwing clothes into the washing machine with money in the pockets, too pissed to realise. Polymer banknotes survive pissed washing activities very well. The rum colony & legacy of heavy drinking is the real genesis of polymer notes imo. So glad to pull an intact $50 from my jeans despite my banging hangover.
The one dollar note, which replaced the ten shilling note, was introduced in the later half of the 1960s
Why would you need a one dollar note though
@@RobReacts1 The $1.00 note has gone into history having been replaced by a coin some decades ago
@@RobReacts1 Back in the 60s, 70s and 80s there were still lots of things you could buy for less than a dollar. Also, if an item cost, for example $78 dollars, you needed to extra dollar, otherwise you would have to round the price down to $77 or up to $79 with two $2 notes to add to the five and the larger value notes.
Hi Rob.
When the very first new plastic $10 note came out in 1988. The widow on the note that had the Captain Cook image in it, could be rubbed out by rubbing a coin on it. Like a scratchy. The government recalled the note back. Before fixing the problem and releasing it again.
If anyone has any of the very original new plastic $10 note that were recalled back. Its worth about $10,000 now. I did have some when it first came out and I remember rubbing out the window. I wish I kept some.
we now longer have $1 and $2 notes but they are coins. All of our coins still have the queen on their obverse. The notes have been redesigned recently so there are two designs of notes currently in circulation except for the old $50 which as it says was pulled from circulation. There are quite a few different versions of coins floating around due to updates and special releases. The 50c coin was updated many years ago from a circular shape to one with 12 sides. The old ones had become too expensive to produce for their face value. we no longer use 1c and 2c coins so the 5c is our smallest value and smallest sized coin.
I read somewhere that when they were designing the new notes and thinking of ways to make the new notes almost impossible to counterfeit they actually got input from people who had been successful in counterfeiting the old notes. Great story if true.
I'd choose the Australian bank notes as an Aussie but if i had to have a UK Bank note would be the 10 because I love Jane Austen.
OK. Do you have an Australian banknote in front of you? If you roll it into a (lengthwise) cigar type cylinder, the very very fine lines all PERFECTLY match up at the edges. It doesn't matter which way you roll it (whichever side is face up or face down), it always matches up perfectly. It doesn't matter which note, they ALL line up perfectly, every denomination note. OK, now try to roll it again so it forms a cylinder with both short sides. They also line up perfectly, although the lines are very fine. The colors also match up, if the note is mostly blue in color, they have bits of green etc. the colors match up perfectly. That is true for every Australian polymer note. Roll them and the colors and lines match up, whichever way you roll it, lengthwise or sideways, whichever side is up or down, whichever denomination you have. Bloody brilliant.
The mighty Dollaridoo
Makes it easy to see the note in your wallet. Don't know how the US people cope with all notes looking the same.
I have had to sellotape a few polymer notes. They don't tear, but they can crack if they're folded too severely and those cracks can cause them to break in half.
The queen is also still on the obverse of all our coins (+ the $5 note as others have said). There was a youtube vid out showing someone using the corner of a polymer note as the needle to play a record.
Look at the coins going back to 1966 when we had the introduction of decimal currency and the 1976, she's the same, maybe even by 1986, but by 1996, she's clearly much older and the ones from about 2006 onwards, she's somewhat more like she looks now.
G’day Rob.
You mentioned wanting to learn more, and you asked about Banjo Paterson. I also know you did a video on the ten Dollar note already. But I will add this here as well, for anyone else to enjoy too.
The Poem. The Man from Snowy River, is more of a “Bush Ballad” than just a mere poem.
It’s a full blown story of its own.
In fact we made a very good movie of that name, that covered the poem reasonably accurately too (apart from some Yanky movie star imports).
They did add a love story in the movie and some back story too, but the events in the poem were still all faithfully covered (with only major difference being that Harrison came from America).
This Clip is full recital by Franky J Holden (an Aussie actor) and he does the full version of the poem too.
What’s more it’s said with scenes from the movie I mentioned as a backdrop, and it’s very well done too, as it includes bits of the awesome sound track as well.
This clip is actually all the proof you need, to show just his well the movie followed the poem.
Yes they changed certain origin stories and added things like a love story etc. but the very heart of the poem is still there.
And the cinematography is simply superb. Shame the CZcams video quality is poor. But I assure you, the film itself is excellent.
And thus video is short enough for you to do a full reaction to, if you like.
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But if you want a teaser of the movie itself, to give you a sort of heads up, just search for a movie trailer of the movie first.
It won’t be the spoken poem of course, but you will get a better quality video though, and see the Great Dividing Range in better light.
Cheers and enjoy.
Edit. Here is a clip that shows just a bit of Jim Craig’s ride (aka the hero).
It also shows the cinematography and soundtrack to better effect, and you will catch the Yanky import too.
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14:45 the old grey note used to have Sir Douglas Morson. and explorer in the Antarctic.
The older $10 with Banjo Patterson has "the man from snowy river" poem in micro-print
Hi Rob, Awhile ago you were talking about "Waltzing Matilda" it was written by Banjo Patterson and then put to music. They spoke about "The Man From Snowy River" and our $10 note. In the 80's they turned it into a movie. Starring Tom Burlington who was in a movie about Pharlap. Sigrid Thorton who's fairly well known in some circles, most recently in "Sea Change". Her Mum once handcuffed herself to a Brisbane bar, when women couldn't drink with the men in the early 70's. She's one celebrity my sister remembers quite well when Sigrid was a teenager. My sister used to talk to her family while working in a supermarket. Kirk Douglas was also in the cast. For Aussie film fans the Father Paul Murcurio who rose to fame in "Strictly Ballroom", whose name is Gus was also in it.
I still havnt got round to listening to Waltzing Matilda!
Example of how one of those Pommy Notes would look if an Aussie was in charge of Design, Would expect Cliffs of Dover, Small Ships returning from Dunkirk, with Sea Birds, if going to put Churchill on Bank Note add a bit of Flair, Spanish Armada, Drake with his other achievement, Should also showcase Scottish and Irish person.
9:34 only problem I have with the wallet is the folding. In Australia we just do rolled and stacked.
If you want to know about Australian history; read "The Loaded Dog" by Henry Lawson. This story epitomises Australian outback culture, along with "Clancy of the Overflow" "The Man from Ironbark" and "The Man from Snowy River".
Australia invented polymer bank notes. We hold the patent and other nations (like UK and Canada) use the technology under licence to the Reserve Bank of Australia. We still have the Queen on the $5 note (which is the smallest of our notes now...). The Queen is only on the reverse of all coins and the reverse of the $5 bill. All other notes have two different sides.
3:58 and the camels. Don't forget the Afgans.
I hated the polymer bank notes when they first came out because you couldn't fold them at all. When the shop keeper put coins in your hand and the notes on top it would just float away!
The Queen was only on the $1 note on one side, the reverse had indigenous art.
When the $1 became a coin, the Queen was moved to the $5 note.
Can't recall who was on the reverse, Caroline Chisholm?
You should check out some of our $2 coins, they are coloured, I think that process may have been a Canadian invention.
Caroline Chisholm and Sir Joseph Banks were on the original paper note and Parliament House is on the reverse of the Polymer note. I think the $5 note has had the most changes over the years, who can keep up 😱
to rob my name is grant i am a retired boilermaker and certified welder . i was employed.on.the job.for instalation.and fabrication. of polymer extruder and piping. it was a good job ,but it might interest you know the engineers were from the centre of england they said to me it was called the lakeland . a lot of the material also came from england . the techknowledgy might have been english also. but they were bloody good blokes and good to work alongside yours sincerely from grant c/o townsville north queensland australia.
I'll always remember the first new new $100 pristine condition note to make a stack out of. It's mainly gold, silver and platinum bullion I stack (Aus+Brit+Canadian bullion). But I started making physical note stacks due to how much I loved the new edition set, the look and the feel of the notes along with the historical dive deep dives.
If you haven't done a deep dive into Monash yet you'll have a ball dw.
Her Majesty is on the flip side. The shield has all of the states shields included.
A lot of thought went into the polymer notes. He forgot to mention that our notes are different sizes. As the note increases in value the size increases. The colour of the note helps people who can't read or can't read English. (You only have to learn the what colour per denomination)
The feature to help the vision impaired are:
1 dimple = $5
2 dimples = $10
3 dimples = $20
4 dimples = $50
5 dimples = $100
We also got rid of the $1 and $2 notes and replaced them with coins. The $1 coin is larger that the $2 coin. Both are gold in colour.
The Man From Snowy River by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson. First appeared in The Bulletin, 26th of April 1890.
There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
That the colt from old Regret had got away,
And had joined the wild bush horses - he was worth a thousand pound,
So all the cracks had gathered to the fray.
All the tried and noted riders from the stations near and far
Had mustered at the homestead overnight,
For the bushmen love hard riding where the wild bush horses are,
And the stockhorse snuffs the battle with delight.
There was Harrison, who made his pile when Pardon won the cup,
The old man with his hair as white as snow;
But few could ride beside him when his blood was fairly up -
He would go wherever horse and man could go.
And Clancy of the Overflow came down to lend a hand,
No better horseman ever held the reins;
For never horse could throw him while the saddle girths would stand,
He learnt to ride while droving on the plains.
And one was there, a stripling on a small and weedy beast,
He was something like a racehorse undersized,
With a touch of Timor pony - three parts thoroughbred at least -
And such as are by mountain horsemen prized.
He was hard and tough and wiry - just the sort that won't say die -
There was courage in his quick impatient tread;
And he bore the badge of gameness in his bright and fiery eye,
And the proud and lofty carriage of his head.
But still so slight and weedy, one would doubt his power to stay,
And the old man said, "That horse will never do
For a long a tiring gallop - lad, you'd better stop away,
Those hills are far too rough for such as you."
So he waited sad and wistful - only Clancy stood his friend -
"I think we ought to let him come," he said;
"I warrant he'll be with us when he's wanted at the end,
For both his horse and he are mountain bred.
"He hails from Snowy River, up by Kosciusko's side,
Where the hills are twice as steep and twice as rough,
Where a horse's hoofs strike firelight from the flint stones every stride,
The man that holds his own is good enough.
And the Snowy River riders on the mountains make their home,
Where the river runs those giant hills between;
I have seen full many horsemen since I first commenced to roam,
But nowhere yet such horsemen have I seen."
So he went - they found the horses by the big mimosa clump -
They raced away towards the mountain's brow,
And the old man gave his orders, "Boys, go at them from the jump,
No use to try for fancy riding now.
And, Clancy, you must wheel them, try and wheel them to the right.
Ride boldly, lad, and never fear the spills,
For never yet was rider that could keep the mob in sight,
If once they gain the shelter of those hills."
So Clancy rode to wheel them - he was racing on the wing
Where the best and boldest riders take their place,
And he raced his stockhorse past them, and he made the ranges ring
With the stockwhip, as he met them face to face.
Then they halted for a moment, while he swung the dreaded lash,
But they saw their well-loved mountain full in view,
And they charged beneath the stockwhip with a sharp and sudden dash,
And off into the mountain scrub they flew.
Then fast the horsemen followed, where the gorges deep and black
Resounded to the thunder of their tread,
And the stockwhips woke the echoes, and they fiercely answered back
From cliffs and crags that beetled overhead.
And upward, ever upward, the wild horses held their way,
Where mountain ash and kurrajong grew wide;
And the old man muttered fiercely, "We may bid the mob good day,
No man can hold them down the other side."
When they reached the mountain's summit, even Clancy took a pull,
It well might make the boldest hold their breath,
The wild hop scrub grew thickly, and the hidden ground was full
Of wombat holes, and any slip was death.
But the man from Snowy River let the pony have his head,
And he swung his stockwhip round and gave a cheer,
And he raced him down the mountain like a torrent down its bed,
While the others stood and watched in very fear.
He sent the flint stones flying, but the pony kept his feet,
He cleared the fallen timber in his stride,
And the man from Snowy River never shifted in his seat -
It was grand to see that mountain horseman ride.
Through the stringybarks and saplings, on the rough and broken ground,
Down the hillside at a racing pace he went;
And he never drew the bridle till he landed safe and sound,
At the bottom of that terrible descent.
He was right among the horses as they climbed the further hill,
And the watchers on the mountain standing mute,
Saw him ply the stockwhip fiercely, he was right among them still,
As he raced across the clearing in pursuit.
Then they lost him for a moment, where two mountain gullies met
In the ranges, but a final glimpse reveals
On a dim and distant hillside the wild horses racing yet,
With the man from Snowy River at their heels.
And he ran them single-handed till their sides were white with foam.
He followed like a bloodhound on their track,
Till they halted cowed and beaten, then he turned their heads for home,
And alone and unassisted brought them back.
But his hardy mountain pony he could scarcely raise a trot,
He was blood from hip to shoulder from the spur;
But his pluck was still undaunted, and his courage fiery hot,
For never yet was mountain horse a cur.
And down by Kosciusko, where the pine-clad ridges raise
Their torn and rugged battlements on high,
Where the air is clear as crystal, and the white stars fairly blaze
At midnight in the cold and frosty sky,
And where around The Overflow the reed beds sweep and sway
To the breezes, and the rolling plains are wide,
The man from Snowy River is a household word today,
And the stockmen tell the story of his ride.
Fyi ~ The current twenty dollar note has John Flynn on it. The man who started/pioneered the Royal Flying Doctors Service in Australia.
Thank you Rob for your kind comments about our bank notes 😀😀😀
G'day Rob Look at the notes with a magnifying glass to see if it has micro print on it.
Yeah you can tell the difference in the British notes but you have to be close. The vibrant colors of the Australian notes you can pick the denomination from across a very large long room.
I can't believe you don't know who Banjo Paterson is. The man from Snowy River is iconic!
Banjo Paterson on the new $10 note wrote Waltzing Matilda, Clancy of the Overflow and The Man from Snowy River among others in the late 1800's.
Born in Orange far west NSW in 1864 and died Sydney early February 1941, Aussie Legend!
Christina Macpherson who was actually a British subject wrote the music for Waltzing Matilda. Born June 1864 died Melbourne late March 1936.
She too should be on the money with Banjo, she wrote the music I mean WTF?
If it wasn't for these two people Australia would not have it's unofficial National Anthem.
@1.45,,,,I've never seen that 10 dollar note in circulation lol
we lead the way in a lot of things, invented the first black box flight recorder, the first pacemaker , cochlear ear device. and much more .. wi fi .etc
really enjoyed that ,in 2003 i had a $5 note given me in change in a Chinese tea rooms in Sydney ,I was told they were untearable ...i started messing about scrunching it up then stretching it within a minute i had torn it .....it must have been an old note near its recycling time
A. B. (Banjo) Patterson: Waltzing Mathilda.& The Man From Snowy River.
Look up The Man from Snowy River. A great poem written by Banjo Patterson. The best version spoken was Leonard Teal, but it is hard to find.
A.B.(Banjo) Paterson was Australia's most famous poet . He was prolific and wrote classics such as Waltzing Matilda and The Man From Snowy River .
That note was withdrawn because there was a bruhaha about whether permission had been given to use that sacred body decoration in a such away (and the actually kid in the image may have been deceased to). The indigenous note disappeared quickly, but I have one.
You'll notice all the notes are different in size, that is also to help the blind in determining what note they are holding. Banjo Patterson, as stated was a famous bush poet who's most recognised work was the words to Waltzing Matilda, of course, he also wrote "The Man from Snowy River". Edith Cowan was from Western Australia, born in the mid-west, Geraldton and died in Perth.
One and two dollar notes no longer made
Replaced by gold coloured coins
1 cent and 2 cent finished.
Just 5, 10, 20, 50 and 1 and 2 dollar coins left
Always have limited edition ones occurring all the time
The kangaroo and the emu are two animals that cannot step backward.
So as a young kid, when the plastic notes 1st came out ($5 dollar ones), we use to shrink them in a microwave and use them as key rings :)
Waste not, want not.
0:54 They used to have "The commonwealth of Australia" at the top. It changed when we got changed.....
We also hold the patent so we either print other nations currency or there is royalties paid I believe.
We went to decimal currency on 14 February 1966, so the Queen probably looked close to that image. Her image aged as she did, in subsequent iterations of the design.
I love the colour of our notes. You can easily identify which note you have, especially in a wallet. Also they made a typo in the micro-print on the new $50 note lol. Pretty embarrassing for them as they like to be precise with these notes and they printed millions of them
Got the 1988 polymer tenner still tucked away in my collection. The original release of those notes could see the indigenous image lose some detail and so too the hologram in the clear window if my memory serves me correctly…there was a re-issue of the note after those problems were sorted.
I can remember the first $5 notes coming out. They were grey and the Queen's face could be scratched off so the ink had to be improved. The replacement notes were purple so the grey ones could be spotted and taken out of circulation.
I’ll never forget living in the UK and having to be ever vigilant to counterfeit notes and the number of counterfeit coins in the system
Australian dollar was introduced in 1966, Queen was young at that time. We still have the Queen on the coins.
The old notes had a thin metal band through/in the middle of the paper note and some tricky watermarks
Those first polymer $10 notes are regularly sold now to collectors for $100 . I've seen many of them for sale at that price (or more) .
Some of the new notes from European Nations, Scandinavia, and the EU as a whole are truly gorgeous too.
Rob We went from pound, shillings and pents, to decimal currency on the 14 Feb 1966. So the original picture of the queen on the $1 note is probably from around then since we got rid of $1 note in 1988 for a $1 coin.
The $1 coin came out in 1984 and the $2 coin came out in 1988. The 1988 and 1989 $2 coins have the initials HH on the left side of the coin just below the Aboriginal figures arm pit. The HH was acknowledgement of the coins designer Horst Hahne.
'pants' lol. Probably due to auto corrupt, but should be 'pence'.
Yes lol auto corrupt that's gold may have to pinch that.
@@peterlinsley4287 Be my guest. That's what 'autocorrect' usually does, it doesn't correct if it can't identify a word, it simply gives the nearest alternative to what you typed and corrupts the intended meaning.
You are so even handed in your delivery, Rob, that it is a delight to come here to view your reactions, and leave afterwards without having been insulted or discomforted. I am not suggesting that I agree with every thing that you say, but, at least if I do disagree I do not feel any need to defend my thoughts on the matter, I can leave with my thoughts intact and leave you with your own position on the matter unchallenged. You don't agree with every thing, and as often as not you will disagree with something as agree with it, and that is refreshing, that you are true to yourself. I remember your first post that caught my attention, it was the time that you discovered aussie rules, and your big statement in your video was "This is so Australian". I have to say, I had a good laugh at that. Keep it up, and I will always be back for the subject matter that i have an interest in, cheers m8.
Thanks buddy, I try to give a fair arguement with things. Even if I believe a certain way, im always open to be corrected with valid points :)
We have the Queen on $5 note, because we did away with the $1 and $2 notes
You say of the first plastic note "they moved away from the Queen". That is not the case. In Australia, the Queen's image appears on the lowest denomination note only. When decimal currency came in, in 1966, that was the $1 note which replaced the 10/- note. The $1 note was replaced by a coin in 1984 and the $2 note should have carried the image of the Queen but that didn't happen as the $2 note was replaced by a coin in 1988 so the $5 note carries the Queen's image. The $10 has never been the lowest denomination note so it never had the Queen's image.
The Australian Mint also produces notes for over 20 other countries!
Very true, Note Printing Australia also prints polymer banknotes for Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, just recently the Philippines.
I do miss the designs of the old paper notes. But the new plastic notes have that certain something. BTW that original $10 showing the ancient Aboriginal and the first fleet boat… 1988 was our Bicentenary of the first fleet landing
Valentine’s Day 1966 Australia went from pounds to dollars
I still remember the song with the date in the song
The Australian Polymer notes are very well designed but they also are very similar to the paper ones which they replaced. The paper notes were also very colourful. The new notes you have in the Uk are also very similar to the paper ones which you replaced with polymer notes. The UK notes have always been a little lack lustre where colours are concerned. When you visit Australia later this year you will immediately see Australia is a very colourful country.
Michael O’Loughlin who played for the Swans, his great grandfather is on the other side of the $50 note Banjo Patterson was a writer and poet he wrote the man from snowy river
The colour of the notes also influenced racetrack vernacular.
For Australian bookmakers, a $100 bet is a (green) goblin, $50 is a pineapple and $20 is a lobster.
For what it's worth, a $1,000 bet is a gorilla, $500 is a monkey (half a gorilla) and $25 is a pony (not totally sure of that genesis, but a pony is also slang for the minimum sized glass of beer in Australian pubs).
Well we got those bank notes in 1966, she had only become queen 12 years before in her early twenties. so that why she looks young.
Rob I didn’t know that with our bank notes we were so advanced ... however living in Canada for the last ten years they have now introduce them over the last 2 years. Yes! They are more durable and definitively more harder to counterfeit. They do have one issue (nothing’s perfect obviously) but they have the propensity of sticking together so obviously you have to be careful when paying (again - obviously! 😬🤪🙄🤣) with cash. I’m going home for a couple of weeks in September after 10 years away ... it will be interesting to see the new designs. They seem to go to an extraordinary amount of planning and work on them .... fascinating? Who would have thought?! Love your open minded commentary! Isn’t it lovely because we all have our quirks but in the end we are all essentially the same? And don’t our various quirks and idiosyncrasies make the world and the people we encounter far more interesting? It would be a boring, tired old world if we were carbon copies of each other ... 🥰
They really do stick together dont they!
I remember when the first 5 came out and $1 went to coin in 1984 and the $2 in 1988. Love the notes. Although when I went to America and changed a heap of money into US$ I remembered that smell. You take the good with the bad lol
Im lucky enough to have one of the first polymer $10 notes.
The new notes are slippery to handle and can stick together but at least i dont get dermatitis from plastic notes like i did with paper.
The Queen is on the lowest denomination note which is our $5. The notes have been updated since this video to the new series mentioned. They now have braille and a clear strip going all through it. The length of the notes are different and the use of the bright colours are for the benefit of the vision impaired.
The first release of polymer notes had a fault that would allow us to place it on a hot surface such as a hot iron and shrink it right down.
6:25 I got a nah yah neah on this yeah we had tags that could not be ripped. I did work experience in the DPI. Department of Primary Industries. You needed tags cows could not rip off the samples. I think it was the same stuff.
Ours are different sizes, different colours so you can’t get confused like the US concurrencies all identical. In Addition it, has braille for the visually impaired.Also because We invented the technology other countries have to pay royalties to use it in their own countries.
I rarely have cash anymore, we use our bank or credit card virtually everywhere. Supermarket, shops, pub even market stalls have the technology to accept card payments it’s not difficult nowadays. I believe some countries such as Sweden it’s difficult to use cash as most places won’t accept it, I could be wrong on that.
Looking forward to the barcode credit chip implant are we? Cashless is dystopian.