There's a call for the Australian currency to be renamed "Dollarydoos," and an artist is ready with some suggestions for new notes that are bang on the money.
"Straya Cash" is a project by Melbourne artist Aaron Tyler that gives Australian currency a much-needed facelift and commemorates some of Australia's biggest moments, people and icons on our famously colourful plastic currency.
The concept for the banknotes follows a petition which is making its way around Australia, calling for dollars to be officially renamed "Dollarydoos," after the timeless "Bart v. Australia" episode of The Simpsons.
The notes feature a who's who of modern Australian culture, including Kath and Kim, Iggy Azalea and even pay homage to the humble thong. It's enough to make a true blue "Strayan" (a colloquialism for "Australian" for those uninclined) shed a tear.
Tyler says despite the perfect timing of Straya Cash with the Dollarydoos petition, the project was something he was just chipping away at in his spare time.
"It had been something I was working on throughout the year. I was at a party one night and I realised, after asking a few people, that barely anyone knows who the people on our notes are," he told Mashable Australia.
"Working in advertising, I'm always looking for new ways to connect people with ideas and I thought, 'What if the notes only featured faces that Australians can immediately recognise?'"
The work on the notes is surprisingly intricate, and Tyler says he never planned on making them as good as they've turned out. "It just got deeper and deeper. It was initially just going to be a rough sketch, but each one took about 10 to 15 hours," he said.
"The pattern work was the most laborious, and after I realised how much work had gone into our existing notes I found a real appreciation for all the little details on our notes that probably no one really takes notice of."
To the untrained eye, it may appear there's a hierarchy in place on Tyler's notes. The bigger the star, the higher value the note, but he says it's not the case.
"When I was doing them I did have a bit of an order in place, but I thought about and realised not many people really get their hands on an $100 note, whereas you could have a $5 note in your wallet almost all the time.
There's no real correlation as to how they good they are with what note they're on."
Australia thanks you, Tyler, for your service and patriotism.