Polymer notes 1993 – Present

$5 ‑ Queen of Australia, Elizabeth 11. Features a sprig of wattle, Australia’s national floral emblem. (1995‑2001 polymer)

$5 obverse ‑The new Australian Parliament House, Canberra, opened in 1988.

$5 Federation note ‑ Parliamentarian Sir Henry Parkes. Features a public school building; the opening of the first parliament in the Exhibition Building, Melbourne: Federation Cupola, Centennial Park, Sydney: Federation Star; emblems of the States of the Federated Commonwealth of Australia. (2001 polymer)

$5 obverse ‑Women’s rights activist Catherine Helen Spence.

$10 ‑Journalist, author, poet and war correspondent Andrew Barton ‘Banjo’ Paterson, 1864‑1941. Features a sprig of wattle, the man from Snowy River and ‘Waltzing Matilda’ music sheet. (1993 polymer)

$10 obverse ‑ Republican. political activist, civil rights agitator. author and poet Dame Mary Gilmore. Features portrait painted b.% Sir William Dobell and bullock‑wagon.

$20 ‑ Emancipist, businesswoman and merchant Mary Reibey. Features merchant trading vessel; George Street, Sydney, warehouse. (1994 polymer)

$20 obverse ‑Missionary visionary and cleric Reverend John Flynn. Features Flying Doctor aerial ambulance; pedal radio: numbered medical poster used for remote diagnosis: camel transport

$50 ‑Aboriginal inventor, author and anthropologist David Unaipon. Features designs for mechanical shears; engine; outback mission; Dreamtime story. (1995 polymer)

$50 obverse ‑ Parliamentarian. social rights worker. women’s rights activist and feminist Dame Edith Cowan. Features Western Australian parliament building; woman and family: woman at podium.

$100 ‑ Opera singer Dame Nellie Melba. (1996 polymer)

$100 obverse ‑ Engineer and soldier Sir John Monash. Features Anzac ‘Rising Sun’ badge: Light Horsemen 1 st AIF; Private Simpson and his donkey; Howitzer in action at the battle of the Somme.

Notes are reproduced here within the provision of Sections 16 and 19 of the Crimes Act 1981.