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| Australia 5 Pounds banknote |
Australia 5 Pounds banknote of 1960, issued by the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Obverse: Portrait of Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin (1786–1847), British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. Franklin also served as Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania from 1837 to 1843. He was influential in establishing an education system and founding the Tasmanian Natural History Society, the first scientific Royal Society established outside Britain. In his last expedition, he disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The entire crew perished from starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning and scurvy, and the expedition's icebound ships were abandoned in desperation.
Reverse: Mix of agricultural and pastoral industries of Australia surrounding a central motif of Aboriginal artefacts.
Watermark: Portrait of Captain James Cook in center oval.
Signatories: H. C. Coombs - Governor, Reserve Bank of Australia
Roland Wilson - Secretary to the Treasury