What past Australian dollars are worth today
A post-1966 dollar amount can be compared directly with CPI. For an earlier amount, first change pounds, shillings and pence into dollars. Wages and home prices need their own official figures.
This result is an estimate of the amount’s value at 2025 prices. Price comparisons use annual data through 2025. Only optional currency conversions use a recent exchange rate.
Open the Australian inflation calculatorThree distinctly Australian money guides
Each guide preserves the boundary between denomination, consumer prices, earnings and assets.
$100 in 1985
See what an everyday 1980s amount would be worth today and how CPI makes the comparison.
Read guide →AUSTRALIA · REAL WEEKLY EARNINGSWeekly pay then and now
Compare average weekly earnings with CPI to see whether a bigger pay packet actually bought more.
Read guide →AUSTRALIA · C-DAY · 14 FEBRUARY 1966Australia’s 1966 decimal change
Convert the denomination first, then compare the amount with today’s prices—without treating decimalisation itself as inflation.
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