The Australian dollar, AUD or A$, is the official currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including the Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific island states of Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu. It is sometimes affectionately called the "Aussie battler"; during a low period (relative to the US dollar) around 2001 and 2002 the currency was sometimes locally called the ...

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In 2001, the value of one Australian dollar went below 50 US cents for the first time. As of January 2006, the Australian dollar was worth over 75 US cents. In 1966 when the Australian dollar was introduced the International Gold Standard still operated. The Australian dollar was at that time worth 980 milligrams of gold. As of December, 2005 the Australian dollar was worth 44 milligrams of gold. ...

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Australian dollar - Coins. Main articles: Australian coins, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and [[]] All coins portray Queen Elizabeth II on ...

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Australian dollar - Coins. Main article: Australian coins All coins portray Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse and are produced by the Royal Australian Mint. The one- and two-cent coins were discontinued in 1990–92 and withdrawn from circulation. Cash transactions are rounded to the nearest five cents. In recent years, the 20 cent, 50 cent and 1 dollar coins have been issued featuring a va ...

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Australian dollar - Coins. All coins portray Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse and are produced by the Royal Australian Mint. The one- and two-cent coins were discontinued in 1990–92 and withdrawn from circulation. Cash transations are rounded to the nearest five cents. In recent years, the 20 cent, 50 cent and 1 dollar coins have been issued featuring a variety of commemorative and United Nations "year of" themes. There is also an Australian five dollar coin and many silver and gold bullion coins in higher denominations that, like the US Two dollar note, are ...

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When Australia was founded in 1788, it did not have its own currency and had to rely on the coins of other countries. During the early days of the colony, rum was sometimes used as a currency because of the shortage of coins. Spanish dollars were sometimes cut into 'pieces of eight'; quarters, and then into 2/3 and 1/3 segments, with the 2/3 segments (1/6 of original coin) being 'shillings' and the 1/3 segments (1/12 of original coin) 'sixpences'. [1] In 1791 Governor Phillip fixed the valu ...

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On 14 February 1966 Decimal coins were introduced. The old pound was equal to two dollars. All coins portray Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse and are produced by the Royal Australian Mint. This included the 50 cent, 20 cent, 10 cent and 5 cent piece, referred to as 'silver' but actually 75% copper and 25% nickel, as well as the 'bronze' 2 cent and 1 cent piece. The 50 cent piece was originally made circular in 1966, but because the silver in the coin was worth more than 50 cents, it was changed ...

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Many special coins have been produced with an event replacing the usual design on one side of the coin. For some years, all the coins are replaced with a different design for that year. In other cases, only a few coins have the new design, which are released as special commemorative coins, although many usually end up in circulation. Because of their larger size, it is usually the 50c, 20c and $1 which have new designs; the $2, 10c and 5c are rarely changed. The commemorative coins include: 1970. 50c "Captain Cook" 1982 ...

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As part of the British Empire, Australia's economy was intricately linked with that of the United Kingdom. The UK was Australia's largest trading partner by a very large factor. Despite introducing a protectionist trade policy in the 1900s, Australia was still dependent on manufactured goods and industrial capital from the UK, which Australia would import in return for its exports of primary products to Britain. The Australian pound was pegged to the pound sterling. The British economy was sluggish ever since the end of the First Worl ...

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Some items sold at a dollar store would be a dollar or less anyway, whereas other items are a substantially better deal. There are four main reasons a dollar store is able to sell merchandise at such a low price: The product is sold in a smaller quantity (ex. food) The product is a generic / "knock-off", often specially manufactured for such stores The product was manufactured cheaply for a foreign market and then imported The product is purchased from another retail store or distributor as overstock, ...

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In 1926 the British government decided to put the pound sterling back onto the Gold Standard at pre-1914 parity. This had the immediate effect of making British exports far less competitive in international markets. Because Australia pegged the Australian pound to the pound sterling, this also affected Australian terms of trade. Falling export demand and commodity prices placed massive downward pressures on wages, particularly in industries such as coal mining. Due to falling prices, bosses were unable to pay the wages that workers de ...

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Great Depression in Australia, Great Depression in Australia - The 1920s: The calm before the storm, Great Depression in Australia - 1929: The storm erupts, Great Depression in Australia - 1929-1932: Scullin and Lang, Great Depression in Australia - 1932-1939: A slow recovery, Great Depression in Australia - Legacy of the Great Depression in Australia

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This type of retail is also observable in Japan. It is commonly referred to as "100-yen shop" (US dollar being 100 to 150 yen). The stores are said to be proliferating across Japan since around the turn of the century. This is considered by some an effect of decade long recession of Japanese economy. For a long time, 100-yen shops existed not as stores in brick-and-mortar building, but as venders under temporary, foldable tents. They were (and still are) ty ...

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Two days after James Scullin was sworn in as Prime Minister, the Wall Street stockmarket collapsed, marking what is now perceived to be the beginning of the Great Depression. Throughout Scullin's term, commodity prices continued to fall, unemployment rose, and Australia's big cities were depopulated as thousands of unemployed men took to the countryside in search of menial agricultural work. The stagnant economy had reduced economic activity and therefore tax revenues. However, the debt commitments of both state and federal gov ...

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This phenomenon also occurs in Europe. In Britain they are called pound shops. One popular chain is called either Poundland[2] or Euroland, depending on whether in Britain or the Eurozone. The Hema (Hollandse Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij - Dutch Standard Pricing company) was originally a 'guilder' store, everything costing one gulden. In Norway there is Tier´n, which is a colloquialism for ten kroner (crowns), about $1.40. In Sweden there is Tian, which is ...

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Unlike the United States where Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal stimulated the American economy, New Zealand where Mickey Savage's socialism and central planning almost eliminated unemployment overnight, or the United Kingdom where rearmament also reduced unemployment, there was no formal plan for economic recovery in Australia. There was no banking reform or socialisation of the economy. State governments and local councils continued with make-work unemployment relief schemes such as bridge building and other public works. However, the stimula ...

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Great Depression in Australia, Great Depression in Australia - The 1920s: The calm before the storm, Great Depression in Australia - 1929: The storm erupts, Great Depression in Australia - 1929-1932: Scullin and Lang, Great Depression in Australia - 1932-1939: A slow recovery, Great Depression in Australia - Legacy of the Great Depression in Australia

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During the Second World War, the Australian Labor Party formed a government in the House of Representatives, led by two socialist Prime Ministers: John Curtin (1941-1945) and Ben Chifley (1945-1949). Curtin and Chifley, who often used the spectre of another depression in his campaign rhetoric, used emergency wartime powers to introduce a command economy in Australia based on Keynesian principles. Unemployment was eliminated in this period. An extensive welfare state was also introduced in this era after a constitutional referendum on September 28, ...

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Great Depression in Australia, Great Depression in Australia - The 1920s: The calm before the storm, Great Depression in Australia - 1929: The storm erupts, Great Depression in Australia - 1929-1932: Scullin and Lang, Great Depression in Australia - 1932-1939: A slow recovery, Great Depression in Australia - Legacy of the Great Depression in Australia

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These stores are found all over the Middle East, however the most 'popular' ones are found in the city of Dubai. Advertised extensively on Arabic and Persian satellite TV stations across the world, these stores have gained new ground in attracting tourists from other Middle Eastern nations to the United Arab Emirates. Although there is no official name for these stores in Arabic, they are generally called the "kul'lo shayy'in AAshara dirham" stores ("everything ten dirhams"). Ten dirhams would be about USD $3. The popular ones in Dubai are: Arz Al-Hadaya ("Gift Land") Al-Kabayl Discount Ce ...

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Deal or No Deal - Optimal Strategy -- When to Deal. Essentially, Deal or No Deal consists of multiple exercises in decision theory where a player has to determine whether he values taking a fixed amount of money -- the banker's offer -- more or less than possible future winnings. The expected win at any point in the game is the total of all the unopened boxes divided by the number of unopened boxes; in other words the average (arithmetic mean). This expected value is the amount that a player would expect t ...

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The basic format of Deal or No Deal consists of a number of cases (usually 26) each containing a different amount of money. Not knowing the sum of money in each case, the contestant picks one case at random which potentially contains the contestant's prize. They then open the remaining cases, one by one, revealing the money they contained. At pre-determined intervals the contestant receives an offer from the bank to purchase the originally chosen case from the contestant, the offer being based on the potential value of the contestant' ...

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