I don’t know how Aussies ever manage to raise any children to adulthood without keeping them sealed in plastic bubbles. The entire continent is virtually overrun with deadly critters and varmints.
Carpet pythons are the least of their problems. Try, for example, that charming creature, the Sydney Funnel Web Spider, the most lethal of all spiders. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider