New Australian $5 bill compared to 'clown puke'

TheReserve Bank of Australia has unveiled the new design for its $5 bill, and the early reviews on social media are not good, featuring such words as "vomit," "disgusting" and "atrocity."

The bank proudly revealed the new note in a tweet and media release Tuesday morning.

The early replies to that tweet were not encouraging

Economics writer Jason Murphy was curt in his take on the new design

Murphy wasn't the only one to compare the bill to a pile of sick

The new design retains the bright purple colour motif of the current $5 bill but also adds magenta, orange, blue and yellow.

The yellow oval shapes on the bill are meant to depict theprickly-leaved wattle, a shrub native to the continent,but people thought they looked more like toilet brushes or bacteria.

But not all the reviews were bad

Some people complained that the bill still depicted Queen Elizabeth, despite a recent surge in republican sentiment in Australia, including last year's election of Prime MinisterMalcolm Turnbull, a former leader of theAustralian Republican Movement.

Someone helpfully offered an alternate design