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Open thread: what do you think of Australia's new $5 banknote?

The new Australian $5 banknote
The design of the new Australian $5 banknote, which has been announced by the Reserve Bank of Australia

Australia is getting a new $5 banknote with more colours, more flowers and a barely ageing Queen.

The Reserve Bank of Australia released the new design on Tuesday with an announcement it would enter circulation in September.

The RBA says the banknote depicts “a different species of Australian wattle and a native bird within a number of the elements”.

According to some of the general public it is “ugly”, “comparable to vomit” and features an irrelevant figure.

Others saw room for improvement and rolled up their sleeves to do the work themselves:

Now over to you. Love it? Hate it? Ambivalent? Join the discussion below

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