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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

Snakes, sheilas and a backblocks shed: learning how to wrangle Australia’s most venomous reptiles

In the backblocks of the Lockyer Valley, more than an hour’s drive west of Brisbane, is a dead end track thick with scrubby eucalypt regrowth.

It is a Saturday morning in late spring and, in this quiet neck of an area which bills itself as Australia’s salad bowl, a car turns down the no through road. One follows another.

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