At least the wattle's Australian
UK comparison site Merchant Machine analysed banknotes around the world to assess them for gender equity and found that 88 per cent of the world’s banknotes feature images of men and that 69 of the world’s 177 currencies have all-male notes.
The United States, India and China have never featured images of women on their banknotes.
Australia, Sweden and Denmark are the gender equity standouts, with equal numbers of men and women featured on their notes.
Queen Elizabeth II helps get the numbers up for women; she is featured on banknotes issued in 25 countries.
Merchant Machine has made some recommendations for women who might be portrayed on notes to redress the imbalance: Kamala Harris, the first woman elected US vice president; German Chancellor Angela Merkel; climate activist Greta Thunberg; and Oprah Winfrey, the first black female billionaire.
Women on Australian notes currently include Queen Elizabeth, poet and journalist Mary Gilmore, the first female member of an Australian parliament Edith Cowan, opera singer Nellie Melba and colonial era businesswoman Mary Reibey.
The men include the founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service John Flynn, Aboriginal inventor and writer David Unaipon, World War I general John Monash, poet Banjo Paterson and Federation leader Henry Parkes.