I have been contacted by two newsagents in the last week about them receiving fake $50 notes in their businesses. Both are from New South Wales, but hours apart.
The reserve Back website has excellent details on how to spot fake Australian banknotes. I urge you to print this and ensure all team members have read and understand it.
It’s $100 notes in this strip at present, 4 or 5 passed in the last couple of weeks.
They are better than the $50 fakes we have seen before, usually the 50 or 100 embossed in the clear window was absent, but these seem to have a (less well defined but present) numeral visible.
The window was the usual check I would make (indeed, the stars on the attached pic look like they were painted on with Liquid Paper), but we have to look more closely now.