CathKidston Offspring is fricking awesome!
For those asking about spiders, we lived in Melbourne for 6 years, in a CBD apartment, then suburban house, then townhouse essentially in the CBD, on the outskirts.
13th floor apartment; balcony door open a hell of a lot, don't think we saw a single spider.
Suburban house; two massive huntsmen in the house, one that lived in the lemon tree and one on the car after being parked under a tree at Woolworths. Plus I imagine 'normal' spiders, though I don't particularly remember. That was with the study window open year round, day and night, when we were in or out.
Townhouse; we had a spider nest in the hallway but never saw anything other than babies (which got hoovered up) and don't know what variety they were. I imagine we may have had the odd one or two 'normal' spiders but again, I don't remember. That was with the door to the roof terrace open on all but the hottest of summer days.
The only snake I ever saw was out in the bush although you'd hear reports every summer of some outer suburban gardens having them.