5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - 30 Years of Territory Government - Silver Proof

The Northern Territory achieved self-government on 1 July 1978, three decades before this issue — a political arrangement that stopped well short of full statehood, a distinction that remains unresolved to this day. Canberra retained control over uranium mining policy and land rights legislation for years afterward, making the "self-government" designation a matter of ongoing constitutional debate rather than clean administrative separation.