Spiders in Australia… eek!

[Soontobe60]

My DH is desperate to return to Australia (he spent time there as a teenager) and wants to go to watch the Ashes in a couple of years, combined with a road trip across the south of the country. I love travel, love adventures but loathe spiders!
My question is, is my fear of coming across loads of spiders in Australia justified? Has anyone been and if so, did you come across lots of them, in particular big ones?

Lived in Sydney for 20 years, keen gardener, never saw a poisonous spider. Huntsmen are annoying because they just stealthily appear out of nowhere but DH perfected the margarine tub and piece of card spider removal method. Please don't be put off visiting an amazing place because of spider worries.

There are courses for spider phobias - might be worth having a look at.

Why post photos of spiders on a thread about arachnophobia??

Stopping myself from googling all these spiders

OP I'm shit scared too and hang the same fear of going to Aus. This thread has helped reassure me in part

Not so much spider catcher people but spider catcher tools. There's quite a range over here so you don't have to get too close.
We get a lot of huntsmen (even with screen doors) but that's it.
We just do the basics- no shoes left outside, bang them before you put them on, shake out washing before bringing it in, shake out clothes left on the floor (should have done this in NZ too- would have saved me a white tail bite on my butt), don't let the kids pole fingers into dark crevices/holes and check play equipment first.
We do also get the St. John's cross (?) spider which makes quite beautiful webs with a strong white cross. Harmless and quite stunning.

I’m perplexed on how these ‘spider catcher people’ would work? Unless something like a daddy long legs in a permanent web (and no one would worry about those, they just eat flies for you), the thing with spiders is they MOVE and often quite quickly. So by the time you call someone and they rock up chances are it’s now ‘somewhere’ in your house and they have NFI and the second they leave it will scuttle somewhere you can see it. That’s why you need to deal with it at the time. Nothing pisses me off more than a kid here yelling out to me to come deal with one and then by the time I get there ‘uhhm, I think it went behind the curtains/bookshelf/no idea’. Sick of telling them just deal with it themselves when they see one and at this point the ignorance of what needs to be killed versus taken outside is just due to disinterest - why have a dog and wag your own tail type of thing.