This should be a shoe in for Phil Jaques, he's worked hard in the domestic scene for a number of years now and deserves his extended run. The next in line would probably be Phil Hughes the successor to Katich when he retires in maybe 3-5 years.
The other options on that list don't really rate a mention to be honest. At this stage in the Australian team we need to be picking either long termers (youngsters with heaps of talent/performance) or older 30+ with really massive performances at domestic level.
Starting with Chris Rogers who's far too old and not great enough even though he's had one decent season.
Brad Hodge isn't really a true opener and probably should have replaced Symonds during the last Ashes. Unfortunately the guy has missed the boat. Still could do a role in Twenty20s though.
Michael Hussey thrives in the middle order so leave him be, besides, putting him at the top is only a stop gap solution, because in 3-5 years he'll be gone too, not to mention a destabilised middle order.
Then finally we have Shaun Marsh, picked originally on IPL form which can be overlooked if he was only being considered for Twenty20 matches (which I must say he isn't doing too flash in), but now being considered for opening in test matches which is ridiculous. The guy can't even string together consecutive seasons of decent performance at first class level and yet he's seen as the saviour of our batting problems.