About the AUD/MUR rate
The AUD/MUR rate is how many MUR one Australian dollar buys. It moves constantly with interest-rate expectations, commodity prices and global risk sentiment - see what moves the rate. Tradergy shows the mid-market reference rate and does not forecast where it’s heading. For the 52-week highs and lows and a daily table, see the AUD/MUR rate history.
Related views of this rate: the reverse rate, MUR → AUD, is on the receiving Mauritian rupee view, and sending Australian dollars to Mauritius is covered on the AUD → MUR transfer page. Every AUD pair sits on the convert hub, and to work in more than one currency at once there is the currency converter.
Three languages, and the order they appear in
Every Mauritian banknote carries three languages, and until 1998 nobody outside the island had reason to know the order. English came first, then Tamil, then Hindi. That sequence was a convention, and it had held long enough that people treated it as a rule. On 18 October 1998 the Bank of Mauritius released a new series in which the second and third were reversed, putting Hindi ahead of Tamil. The Global Nonviolent Action Database at Swarthmore College, which documents the episode, records the explanation offered at the time: that Tamil text in its traditional position would have encroached on the portrait of Sir Moilin Jean Ah-Chuen on the 25 rupee note. The Tamil community, about a tenth of the population against a Hindu community of roughly four in ten, did not accept it, and claimed precedence on the notes by traditional practice and by order of arrival on the island.
What followed was a month of organised protest. The Swarthmore database records thousands gathering outside the Bank of Mauritius, effigies of its Governor burned, representations made to the President, and Tamil members of parliament threatening to resign if the notes were not withdrawn. On 18 November 1998, one month after the release, the government of Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam asked the central bank to withdraw the series, and the Bank complied.
The Bank dates its own current lineage to that same autumn. It describes the polymer notes it began issuing on 22 August 2013 as an extension of the fourth series of banknotes issued on 30 October 1998. The Bank does not say on that page how the 30 October issue relates to the series released on 18 October or withdrawn on 18 November.
Sources: Global Nonviolent Action Database, Swarthmore College, Mauritius Tamil community stops banknote alteration, 1998 · Bank of Mauritius, Polymer Notes, frequently asked questions