Hi. All I can say is your little friend is one of the jumping spiders in the Saltiidae family.
This is a huge family, so this one I am not familiar with. https://australianmuseum.net.au/jumping-spiders
That might be a good call, H.venatoria is not found in Australia, more likely Holconia genus.
Holconia immanus (banded huntsman) is one of the largest of Australian huntsman.
Quite harmless in spite of their size. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbXlAJSNvyo
Well, I concede, My lack of extensive research with Sparassids the last 5 years is getting obsolete. 2011,they were known globally in tropic and sub tropics except for Australias.
(Jäger/Henderson et all) Peter Jäger is a personal friend, helped me a lot researching huntsman. Likely ‘the’ authority on these.
This still looks more banded huntsman than brown huntsman. Best I can do with a poor monitor.
Hi. All I can say is your little friend is one of the jumping spiders in the Saltiidae family.
This is a huge family, so this one I am not familiar with.
https://australianmuseum.net.au/jumping-spiders
This appears to be a Sparassidae of some kind from what I can make out, likely Heteropoda venatoria based on location, but I could be mistaken.
That might be a good call, H.venatoria is not found in Australia, more likely Holconia genus.
Holconia immanus (banded huntsman) is one of the largest of Australian huntsman.
Quite harmless in spite of their size.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbXlAJSNvyo
Indeed they are harmless, but H. venatoria are indeed found in Australia quite commonly. See http://eol.org/pages/1207459/overview and https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c35d8cd0-a078-43bd-825a-1c7ddacf9f6c
Well, I concede, My lack of extensive research with Sparassids the last 5 years is getting obsolete. 2011,they were known globally in tropic and sub tropics except for Australias.
(Jäger/Henderson et all) Peter Jäger is a personal friend, helped me a lot researching huntsman. Likely ‘the’ authority on these.
This still looks more banded huntsman than brown huntsman. Best I can do with a poor monitor.