The spider in that picture is almost certainly the following, which is commonly mistaken for the almost exclusively outside dwelling redback.

meet the steatoda...

http://www.amonline.net.au/spiders/d...k/suspects.htm

If you look through the site, is gives you a realistic understanding of the actual threat of a redback spider which is negligible.

Sorry mate it was a redback, hence the big red stripe on it's back,did you not zoom it in?

As is this one which came from the washing line

Apologies, I didn't zoom in. Have you had a good look around that site ?

Yeah I did have a look and I know where your coming from, but I'm still not happy with my kids playing around them until they get older.

There's loads of dead ones appearing and then disapearing, birds I take it?

Could be garden ants carrying them off. Probably birds though.

Anyway night shift beckons. I'm orf.

Good luck to your team this week Bloody glad I'm not in England at present because of the pain, our lot is putting us through lol.

Have good night, and thanks