Evidence coverage: 1966–1977. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
RBA records public issue of Australian dollar notes on 14 February 1966 and subsequent retirement of pound notes.
C185Currency Act 1965 s.2 makes its remaining provisions operative on 14 February 1966.
C434Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
RBA describes early Spanish-dollar circulation in Australia, later sterling institutions, and national paper money.
Box A
Early Spanish coin use and later sterling institutions do not prove an unbroken dollar unit.
RBA’s 1966 report values the new Australian dollar at ten old shillings, or two dollars per pound.
Introduction
Historical evidence only; current legal status and every intervening amendment are not inferred.
RBA records public issue of Australian dollar notes on 14 February 1966 and subsequent retirement of pound notes.
Note Issue
Issue date and withdrawal process, not instantaneous disappearance of all old cash.
CBSI dates Solomon Islands dollar introduction to October 1977, replacing Australian currency in the changeover.
1976–1977 chronology
Exact conversion not inferred from replacement alone.
Currency Act 1965 s.2 makes its remaining provisions operative on 14 February 1966.
s.2(1)–(2)
The 1966 federal transition is the scope.
Later proclamations and separate territorial adoption are not inferred.
Section 8 sets two Australian dollars per pound, ten cents per shilling and five-sixths of a cent per penny.
s.8
The 1966 federal transition is the scope.
Later proclamations and separate territorial adoption are not inferred.
Sections 9–11 convert covered legal references, contracts and payments, with foreign-currency and rounding qualifications.
ss.9–11
The 1966 federal transition is the scope.
Later proclamations and separate territorial adoption are not inferred.
The federal Act excludes Papua, New Guinea and Christmas Island from its territorial extension.
s.5
The 1966 federal transition is the scope.
Later proclamations and separate territorial adoption are not inferred.
Sections 18–21 allow transitional old-currency dealings and old/new coin tender; s.23 permits later coin call-ins. Decimal launch is not a universal old-cash extinction date.
ss.18–21 and 23
The 1966 federal transition is the scope.
Later proclamations and separate territorial adoption are not inferred.
The kina succeeded Australian dollars in Papua New Guinea. Both circulated through 1975; Australian-dollar legal tender ended on 1 January 1976. Traditional shell names are a separate naming history.
History of Exchange: April 1975 introduction and January 1976 Australian-dollar withdrawal
Australian pound separated from the common sterling account system during1929–1936monetary breakup; earlier local sterling use and notes are continuity observations.
Decker2022pp375–379;AGSOpinion1564
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Decker2022pp375–379;AGSOpinion1564
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Decker2022pp375–379;AGSOpinion1564
Early Spanish coin use and later sterling institutions do not prove an unbroken dollar unit.