Three years ago, when he was aged just 12, Connor McLeod filed a discrimination complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission and started an online petition with his mother which received more than 56,000 supporters.The new Australian five-dollar banknote entered circulation on Thursday and is the first in a new series that includes a tactile feature to help vision-impaired people distinguish between different banknote denominations. "The tactile feature on the five-dollar banknote is one raised bump on each of the long edges of the banknote next to the top-to-bottom window," a statement from the bank said.McLeod came up with the idea after receiving some money for Christmas when he was 11, "but had no idea how much it was and how generous or tight-arse the present-giver had been," he said on Thursday.The feature will assist over 350,000 Australians who are blind or have low vision, replacing the small device that was previously used to measure the size of bank notes which varied by a few millimetres.The Reserve Bank says it plans to issue all future notes with similar bumps.- DPA

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 01, 2016 05:48 UTC