Once a federal election is announced in Australia , artists , unionists and activists put their heads together to produce phony bank notes with a strong political message. In the case of the above 85 dollar note , actually 100 smackers but reduced in value due to the perfidious Coalition , shows glum looking PM Malcolm Turnbull , who botched the Republic campaign and the NBN , as useless as a hip pocket on a shirt , against a Cayman Islands tax and banking retreat scene in which lurks former PM Tony Abbott gowned like an island Queen waiting to be called; Barnaby Joyce beams from a ripe tomato .
The other side [above] features a vignette of former Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann smoking cigars with the message the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Authorised by the Maritime Union of Australia , the currency urges voters to put the Liberals last and that Australia needs its own merchant shipping fleet with Aussie crews on board for jobs, safety and national security .
Currency from previous elections feature Prime Ministers Malcolm Fraser,in a three dollar bill , with Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen represented as a sheep , and John Howard freezing wages .
