The first is pretty obvious: the country's first triangular coin has been minted, and it commemorates the Parliament House erected 25 years ago. Queen Elizabeth was there to oversee the building's opening, hence the picture of her head on one of the coin's sides (the other side is, appropriately, an image of the building in question).
The coin has a face value of $5 dollars (obviously), and is made of 99.9% silver. Ten thousand of them were minted, but not circulated to the public.
The second thing I learned from this article is that the capitol of Australia is Canberra. Not Sydney or Melbourne, the only cities in Australia I could name until today.
-JJ
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