Australia's new $5 note is a symbolic mess that retains relics of the past for no good reason

Australia woke up on Tuesday to a social calamity. It wasn't the latest musings of a deranged American billionaire, the prospective retirement of one of the last "good guys" of the AFL or even the shocking omission of a swimmer-cum-broadcaster-cum-swimmer from the Australian Olympic team.

Instead, it was the aesthetic, artistic and symbolic mess that is Australia's new $5 note.

Alita Brydon15 April 2016Will Fowles