50 Cents - Elizabeth II 6th Portrait - Afghan Cameleers

The Afghan Cameleers commemorative acknowledges the largely Muslim camel drivers — recruited predominantly from British India's Balochistan and Sindh regions — who operated the inland transport networks that made Australia's interior exploration and early settlement viable from the 1860s onward. Without their camel trains, the overland telegraph line and many remote pastoral stations would have been logistically impossible to supply. They were systematically excluded from the country under the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901, the same legislation that formalized the White Australia Policy.

The 6th portrait of Elizabeth II, by Jody Clark, was introduced to Australian coinage in 2019.