I write in celebration of 60 years of decimal currency. I arrived in Canberra in late January 1966 as a programmer in training for Treasury to begin a year's full-time training. Our course started two ...

"Australia changes her currency. Pounds and shillings are out, and dollars and cents are in." It's the 14th of February, 1966 - and Australians have woken up to a new way of counting money. "They're ...