Lancer you forgot the dengue fever from the swarms of mossies that can lift & carry the crocks away ----not to mention leprosy.
Steve your Right , Melbourne is Melbourne, try to avoid the rat race like the plague--MMm bit less the Sydney though.
Instead come to "Sleepy Hollow" Gee-long or better still --Torquay on the coast & Go diving most weekends. Multiple wrecks in most depths.
Michael, any truth in the story Noah's Ark re-construction is underway