Just weeks after Queen Elizabeth II’s death, Australia is already hinting it might not replace her with King Charles III on its five-dollar banknotes when they’re eventually reprinted.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers said Wednesday he’d mull the best way of redesigning the widely-used currency following the Queen’s passing, using language that left the door open for someone besides her 73-year-old son to be depicted. Previous polls suggest the population is roughly split about breaking from Britain.
“I don’t see a massive rush to change,” Chalmers said in Canberra. “But nor do I think it should be especially controversial for