Australian Centenary
of Federation
$5 Banknote
The pictures below are of the two sides of the $5 banknote. They
show Catherine Helen
Spence,
a major advocate, before and after Federation, for the
quota-preferential Proportional Representation
electoral system, and a campaigner for women's rights and
female suffrage, and below her,
Sir Henry Parkes, a Premier of the
Colony
of New South Wales,
who was a pioneering and leading
advocate
for Federation.