The last person associated with trying to remove the monarch from the $5 note was Joe Hockey.
As part of the lead-up to the 2001 Centenary of Federation celebrations, then Reserve Bank of Australia governor Ian Macfarlane informed Hockey, who was financial services minister, of a plan to issue a new note with an eminent Australian in place of Queen Elizabeth II.
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