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someone may want to consider switching the order of the first two paragraphs on the History portion so it's chronological. I had to read it a afew times to understand what it meant.

Please unlock the article, I need to add the local nickname for the aud, "dollarydoo". 58.160.129.180 (talk) 01:22, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's what got the article semi-protected in the first place. Do you have a reliable source for that nickname? clpo13_(talk) 01:24, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are lots of sources, e.g. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/16/petition-to-rename-the-australian-dollar-to-the-dollarydoo.html, http://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-petition-to-call-australias-currency-the-dollarydoo-has-50000-signatures-2015-10-19.

57 000 people have signed a petition (I can't link to it because change.org is blacklisted by Wikipedia) to change the name of the Australian Dollar to the "Dollarydoo"; this has received widespread media coverage. This probably isn't notable enough to be mentioned in the lede, but it should be mentioned somewhere in the article. Best to reach a consensus before adding it, though, as this is clearly controversial. Chessrat ^{(talk,contributions)} 16:44, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

AUD is also commonly accepted in Vanuatu and new caladonia Biteditman (talk) 00:27, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Sam Sailor ^Talk! 23:50, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to be two sentences run-together. I am not sure where the stop should be:

Article quote:

On 9 September 1973, the peg was adjusted to US$1.4875, the fluctuation limits being changed to US$1.485–US$1.490;^[1] on both 7 December 1973 and 10 December 1973, the noon buying rate in New York City for cable transfers payable in foreign currencies reached its highest point of 1.4885 U.S. dollars to one dollar.^[2]

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EDIT: Now I see the semicolon that I missed after reading my outtake once more after saving the page, of course.

"...the fluctuation limits being changed to US$1.485–US$1.490;" /EDIT Lytzf (talk) 06:23, 9 January 2016 (UTC) Lytzf (talk) 06:12, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Sometime in the past month or two, the 'new' $5 note came out. Both are still accepted as legal tender, but 'old' notes will we phased out as they return to the banks damaged. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.138.38.38 (talk) 01:27, 21 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The received wisdom ever since 1963 is that the proposed name "Royal" for Australia's decimal currency was all Bob Menzies' idea, staunch monarchist that he was. There are sources galore for this. However, I have an article by Tim Bowden, called "Love me tender", published in the Weekend Australian Magazine of 16-17 May 1998 (I can't find it online), in which he says:

Eventually seven names were shortlisted for the Cabinet meeting of June 5, 1963: austral, dollar, crown, royal, regal, pound and tasman. The decision on the royal was said to be unanimous. (Despite the opprobrium that was later heaped on Menzies over the royal, he favoured the term dollar in the Cabinet debate.)

Now, Menzies lead the government, and he took primary responsibility for all Cabinet decisions, which are always presented as unanimous, and are binding on ministers, including the Prime Minister. But it's interesting that, according to Bowden, the final decision to have a dollar was Menzies' idea all along, and royal must have been some other minister's idea, possibly Holt. Can we find some corroborating source for this? Of course Menzies would have supported the name royal after the Cabinet decision, but that tells us nothing about his views inside the Cabinet before the decision was made. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 21:20, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]