Today I learnt that when Australia moved to decimal coinage a number of new names were thrown around as possibilities. These included the dollah, the dinkum, the dauler and the deena. There was also the royal and it was this that the Holt government initially chose, so our money could have looked like this...
Across Australia the royal met with almost unanimous disapproval and scorn.
The Labor leader, Arthur Calwell, said the name was a product of ''antiquated thinking''. A poll in The Sun a few days later found 95 per cent of Victorians were against it, while the leader writers of The Age thundered: ''It is obvious that the government has misjudged public opinion on this matter.''
So that was lucky eh? Read the full story including the death threats made against the Prime Ministers wife here.
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