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Not all things in Australia want to kill you..........

JimInOz
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only one sure fire way to fix this

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Jeez, they're only pythons, it's not like she's wrestling taipans or browns.

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DoctorEvil
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Big and scary looking, but won't kill you:
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A redback or Sydney funnel web spider on the other hand...
 
JimInOz
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redback or Sydney funnel web spider on the other hand...

I'm dreading the day that a redback mates with a funnelweb.

Imaging the offspring inhabiting every rust pile of galvo on the continent, firewood stacks, outdoor dunny seats, corner of my garage.........

It'd be enough to make me emigrate to the US.

almost enough.........

PS: I don't want to freak anyone out with funnelweb pics, so if you're interested in the deadliest spider on the planet, just Google "Atrax Robustus".
 
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Like a silly fella around 15 years ago I got into the habit of not checking inside my work shoes I leave in the garage. Yep ,put my bare foot in and bang got a sting on my big toe which very quickly felt like someone was continually hitting my toe with a hammer. . OMG the pain lasted for two days . I rang emergency who said ‘no worries’ if you start sweating and wanting to pass out get to a hospital otherwise suck it Up. Oh a little redback
 
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La Gazza Ladra?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...k-earphone-from-ear-captured-camera/105845372
Magpies are correct thinking critters, in that they hate cyclists, I always make friends with the local maggies and encourage them to hang about, they're good company when they're on your side.
At the last house I would get up @ 50 of the buggers visiting, it was a home for delinquent adolescent magpies, that kept cyclists and noisy rotten kids on skateboards etc. away from hanging about near my place.
It was also home to big mobs of many other avian vandals such as both short and long billed corellas, rainbow lorikeets, galahs and crimson rosellas.
 
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We have a couple of Water Dragons living in our yard . Lovely little things when tiny .
Almost fully grown now. Leave them alone and alls well . With their long sharp claws and razor teeth they can climb trees ,as you see, and the rumour is if you upset them they will run up your leg and bite you you where it hurts most. Anyone know how to convince them to leave?
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We have a couple of Water Dragons living in our yard . Lovely little things when tiny .
Almost fully grown now. Leave them alone and alls well . With their long sharp claws and razor teeth they can climb trees ,as you see, and the rumour is if you upset them they will run up your leg and bite you you where it hurts most. Anyone know how to convince them to leave?
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Many years ago, I knew a young bloke who was a stoner pot head.
He lived in a share house in the bush with a mob of other young bucks, yobbos and yahoos, there was a door that was always left open and a local water dragon would wander in and out as it pleased, it was a big bastard.
But always seemed pretty mellow. Probably because they'd blow smoke in it's face and it would get stoned with them........it seemed to enjoy it!
The thing would just sit there on the coffee table like a bloody statue.
 
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With the cost of living rocketing even the magpies are stepping up their game and moving into organised crime.
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dsio
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With the cost of living rocketing even the magpies are stepping up their game and moving into organised crime.
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Damn, what part of Brisbane is that?? I didn't know things were getting that rough!
 
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Damn, what part of Brisbane is that?? I didn't know things were getting that rough!
I took a day trip to beautiful Darra.
Footpath/cycleway alongside the railway tracks behind the old Queensland Cement and Lime Co site. I used to work in Limestone Street.
I didn't hang around for Sundowners yesterday to see who, or what, came out to play.
I did see some quail (like) birds in the undergrowth that I'd never seen before. They looked like fat, brown feathered lemons! I actually heard the first one take off before I saw the second and third on the ground. Its flight sounded like the classic movie hunting scene. 😎
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Here's a headline to warm the hearts of all real Ozzies, yes, it's shark attack season!
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Shark Kills Woman and Injures Man in Front of Horrified Beachgoers​

from The Daily Beast 11/27/2025
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A bull shark killed a woman and injured a man at a beach in Australia. The terrifying incident happened at Crowdy Bay in the mid-north coast of New South Wales on Thursday morning. Police say the man and the woman are believed to be in their 20s. NSW police Chief Inspector Timothy Bayly said the pair were swimming at the remote, unpatrolled beach when the attack happened. The woman, who has not been identified, died at the scene. A bystander applied a makeshift tourniquet to the male’s leg before paramedics arrived. “[That] potentially saved his life,” Bayly said. “The courage from some bystanders is amazing. To put yourself out there is very heroic and it did give us time to get to that male patient.”
 
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