Having great white or tiger sharks living off the coast seems pretty awesome to me. I dont surf, or anyone else I know for that matter (bit chilly for it here!) so it wouldn't bother me personally. The fact that they caught and killed such a magnificent creature is what sucks to me. Just displays a certain arrogance, that apparently we humans have the right to surf but sharks dont have the right to live there because they pose a threat. And if someone is attacked by a shark, they have to go and hunt it like some sort of retaliation.

Must admit raining spiders and crocodile-eating pythons would concern me. Surely those examples are just freaks of nature though.. surely!

Sorry but despite your post, I am not convinced that Australia sucks:

It's no New Zealand for sure but I quite liked the Blue Mountains:



And the Kakadu NP up near Darwin is supposed to be pretty spectacular.