Inspector Amy Scott, who ran towards the Sydney spree stabber with no backup, and shot him.4d ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/pics
The rock fishing death scoreboard being updated near my house in Sydney.6d ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Australia sees all of your odd looking pick ups and vans - and raises you a road train.6mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/pics
🔥 An Australian Tarantula Hawk Wasp dragging off a huntsman spider to lay her egg on its paralysed body. When the egg hatches, the larva consumes the paralysed spider from the inside out, leaving the vital organs until last to keep their paralysed meal alive as long as possible.3mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
The wreckage of a 737 water bomber that crashed in Western Australia yesterday. Both pilots walked away.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/aviation
It’s not just the saltwater crocodiles you have to watch out for, the Australians bite too.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/MurderedByWords
Bernie Banton, Australian victim of James Hardie Industries asbestos. He brought the cold fury of an entire nation upon them and made them pay. The compensation was too late for him, but benefits thousands of other victims to this day.3mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/HumansAreMetal
🔥Beachgoers waiting for Trevor (friendly local tiger shark) to finish his turn at Mullaloo Beach in Western Australia before they go back in.3mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Western Australian emergency services searching 1400km of highway for a lost radioactive capsule.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/pics
Wittenoom, Australia’s Chernobyl. Will be deadly dangerous to humans long after Chernobyl is safe.3mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/pics
Aside from the arctic regions of Canada & Russia and Antarctica, is there anywhere else on earth as remote as the Outback?8mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/geography
A 4m great white, chomped in half by something, washed up in Australia. Credit u/Ddannyboy.6mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/natureismetal
A very naughty croc that was trying to eat some kids crossing the river going to school in Australia. Culling is now an extremely rare last resort and populations are booming.1wk ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/WTF
🔥 The red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) is a venomous (but non fatal) snake that most Australians like having around, as they have a reputation for eating more venomous and aggressive brown and tiger snakes.3mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
No one fucks with magpies. No one. Not even a big wedgie that just caught a rabbit.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/natureismetal
The ‘sails’ of the Sydney Opera House are all sections of the same sphere.10mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/DesignPorn
An Australian masked lapwing showing off its wing spur - used to attack stupid humans that wander too close to their nest.1mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/natureismetal
🔥 Australian redback dining on a common/eastern brown snake. Second most venomous land snake in world.10mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Australian masked lapwing (Vanellus miles novaehollandiae), mid swoop with wing spurs apparent. Credit Jon Westaway.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/natureismetal
A Sydney funnel-web and redback sharing the same drain. The funnel-web can kill a child in as little as 15 minutes, and the redback, whilst highly unlikely to kill you, will certainly ruin your day.5mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/natureismetal
The USA draws net migration from the entire world, except Australia.11mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
What’s the longest distance on a road with no fuel in your country? Excluding 4WD only tracks.2mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/geography
Zolgensma a one dose treatment spinal muscular atrophy: $2,527,773.87. Aussie patients pay $31.60.2mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/pics
It’s an Aussie rite of passage to be force fed excess fruit by your parents close to the SA border1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/pics
of a Police Inspector, Amy Scott, who ran into an unknown situation, with no backup, and shot the Sydney mass stabber. She gave him every opportunity to surrender. Commenced CPR immediately after shooting him. File photo.3d ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/AbsoluteUnits
Australia’s railways. The isolated lines in the west are private mine railways. The Darwin to Adelaide link was only completed in 2004.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/MapPorn
The range of the Inland Taipan, the world’s most venomous snake. One bite possesses enough lethality to kill more than 100 adults. It is extremely fast and can strike instantly with extreme accuracy, often striking multiple times, and it envenomates in almost every case. No human deaths on record.2mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/MapPorn
A red-bellied black snake and blue-bellied black snake having a mild disagreement. The red-belly ended up being lunch.5mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/natureismetal
I was today years old when I learnt the rest of the world has boring names for this like ‘starting fluid’. You poor deprived creatures.7mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/Justrolledintotheshop
Kookaburra always has the last laugh. Even versus a tiger snake. Credit Frank Yuwono.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/natureismetal
In Queensland, Australia, owning a pet rabbit is illegal. Some people do however, own ‘long eared Guinea pigs’...1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/Rabbits
The Royal Flying Doctor preparing to take off from a dirt runway lit by flaming toilet rolls in Outback Queensland. They have 79 of these flying intensive care wards at no cost to the patient.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/HumansAreMetal
The Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax robustus reared up in a defensive pose. The deadliest spider in the world. In extreme cases people have died within 15 minutes of being bitten.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/natureismetal
The wooden, backyard built ‘Spirit of Australia’. Holder of the water speed record (511.11 km/h) since 1978. All official record attempts since have ended in death.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/MachinePorn
The Royal Flying Doctor operating from a dirt strip in the Outback, bringing primary and emergency healthcare to remote parts of Australia at no cost to the patient.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/HumansAreMetal
Floods cutting roads in northwestern Australia has turned a ~4600km return trip into a ~12000km return trip.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/MapPorn
Off-road ambulance meets helicopter carrying anti-venin, and to fly Queensland woman from property near Glenmorgan to Toowoomba hospital, after being bitten by second most venomous snake in the world (the brown snake), while she slept in her bed. No cost to patient for any of it.3mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/ems
Results of Australia’s 1999 referendum on becoming a republic instead of a constitutional monarchy. The ‘no’ vote was 55% and Australia retains the British sovereign as its head of state.6mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/MapPorn
Only 800,000 people live in the Australian Outback, an area larger than India and Mexico combined.2yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The Sydney funnel-web spider, reared up in its threat display. Their fangs can piece leather shoes and human toenails. A primitive spider, they bite by slamming their fangs down into their victim using their full body weight. Death can occur in as little as 15 minutes.1wk ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
4 trailer side tipping Australian road train. Generally used to carry ore from remote mines to the port.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/MachinePorn
Australian redback dining on a common/eastern brown snake. Second most venomous land snake in world.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/pics
Populated (white) vs unpopulated (brown) areas of Australia. Resolution down to individual Outback cattle stations and tiny remote communities. Based on 2011 census.5mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/MapPorn
Populated (white) vs unpopulated (brown) areas of Australia. Resolution down to individual Outback cattle stations and tiny remote communities. Based on 2011 census.5mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/geography
Cutaway of retired needle valve at Warragamba Dam, New South Wales, Australia.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/MachinePorn
The ‘sails’ of the Sydney Opera House are all parts of the surface of the same 75m radius sphere.3wk ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/EngineeringPorn
My grandmother’s 60+ year old Mixmaster. Served a family of 12, a family of 5 and now me. Has that beautiful ‘old motor’ smell when it runs.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/MachinePorn
Australia is both the richest country in the world (measured on median wealth per adult) and the only developed country with endemic blinding trachoma - a bacterial disease of extreme poverty that causes blindness.10mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/MapPorn
Australia’s only active volcanoes and highest mountain. Heard and McDonald Islands.2mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/geography
Australia, apparently the land of drought, heat and fire, is having to dig chairlifts out of record snowfalls 2 weeks in to winter.2yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A 4.5m croc (big, but not huge) shot in northern Australia because it was stopping kids crossing a causeway to walk to school.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/WTF
A 4.5m croc (big, but not huge) that was trapped and shot in northern Australia because it was stopping kids crossing a causeway on their walk to school.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The Royal Flying Doctor landing on the road to meet a road ambulance. The distances in the Outback are too great for helicopters or road ambulances to get remote patients to the care they need in time.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/HumansAreMetal
An Australian Wedge-tailed eagle helping with the introduced species problem we have.2yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/natureismetal
I see all the complex plumbing, valves, and expansion tanks for hot water tanks on here and find it very interesting. This is how a storage hot water is typically installed in Australia. Pressure relief valve that dumps on the ground is on the other side of the tank.11mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/Plumbing
Looks like my little corner of Australia will have a portal to Denmark before long. See you soon!2mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/Denmark
Aeromedical retrieval for mental health crisis treatment by the Royal Flying Doctor, 2014-2017. 2257 return flights in total. No cost to patient.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/aviation
The Gorniczy Agregat Gasniczy (GAG) jet engine inertisation unit of the Queensland Mine Rescue Service which has been flown all over the world putting out mine fires.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/MachinePorn
🔥 The colour variations of the Gwardar or Western Brown snake. All of the snakes in the montage are the same species. Whilst not as deadly as its eastern cousin, it can still kill humans.6mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Ball’s Pyramid, the tallest volcanic stack in the world - 562m. 600km off Australia’s east coast.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/pics
Emergency road strip on the Nullarbor Plain, with traffic stopped so the Royal Flying Doctor can land.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/aviation
Australia: The whole ‘everything wants to kill you thing is overblown’.......... Also Australia:2yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/ScarySigns
Injuries from magpie attacks in the greater Sydney area so far this spring. The last death in Sydney was 2019, and there was one person killed in Brisbane in 2021.6mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/MapPorn
The first 3000km of the 4000km drive between Perth and Darwin are entirely within Western Australia. Only 2 sealed roads link WA with the rest of the country.1yr ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A cool guide to dangerous snakes of Victoria, 1877. Displayed in all schools and railway stations.1mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/coolguides
Is it a write off? I have made a deal with the possums that moved in to vacate in 30 days.1mo ⋅ Rd28T ⋅ r/CarsAustralia
