[from occupied ga]

every snake is poisonous to some degree...a box jelly will kill you in two minutes

You left out Sydney funnel web spiders and cone shells. When in graduate school I had some Australian roommates ( 2 - I admit a statistically insignificant sample) - convinced me that only if I completely ran out of other places to go Australia would be a destination.

[naturalman1975]

I always find it a little amusing when Americans worry about Australia being dangerous - I get why the Europeans do, but Americans have poisonous snakes, and poisonous spiders in fair numbers, and alligators that are a fair match for our crocodiles - and then you also have bears. And mountain lions. Which we don't have (we may have a few wild cats roaming around, possible descendants of Second World War mascots, but there's no real proof and if they are out there, it's in tiny numbers).

[laconic]

I read once where Australia has seven of the ten most poisonous snakes in the world, and that doesn’t even count the politicians.