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I really really hate this narrative. Time and time again people tell me they would love to come to Australia but it's too dangerous.
This isn't a dangerous place, most of our wildlife is harmless and/or actively avoids people. It makes me so damn sad every time another friend tells me how deadly my home is, and even worse they refuse to listen to people who actually live here because they've been told Australia is dangerous their whole life.
Wait, people actually avoid Australia because of it? I mean, I do think of Australian wildlife as dangerous, but to me that means "don't fuck about" rather than "don't go at all". And I live in the UK, where we killed everything that was even slightly dangerous to humans long ago
absolutely correct… in australia, you respect the wildlife because it often has the ability to protect itself… its not like people die here every day from it