S8 Ep147: Alarming Urban Home Invasion: Venomous Brown Snake in Canberra — Jeremy Zakis — Zakis reported on a concerning home invasion in Canberra involving a highly venomous great eastern brown snake, one of Australia's deadliest species. The family discovered the
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🗓️ 30 November 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:34.2 | Off to New South Wales to Jeremy Z, to turn the reptile report. |
| 0:38.4 | You will recall that reptiles are protected creatures in Australia, no matter the provocation. |
| 0:45.3 | We're in Canberra now. |
| 0:46.7 | That's the capital zone. |
| 0:49.3 | It's neither New South Wales nor Victoria, somewhere in between. |
| 0:53.0 | And I cannot remember a home invasion |
| 0:58.0 | story from Canberra quite like this, or at all. It was almost as if Canberra didn't have |
| 1:04.1 | snakes. Jeremy, what's happened? Well, John, the unthinkable has happened down in our nation's |
| 1:09.9 | capital. A home in Canberra has been invaded by a great eastern brown snake. And just to remind you what a great eastern brown snake is, you think of a normal brown snake, which scary is itself. It is a very venomous creature. It's around about maybe five foot long, and it will try and attack you if it feels it needs to well a great eastern brown |
| 1:29.0 | snake is exactly the same except a lot more aggressive and has quite a thicker body and quite a |
| 1:34.4 | quicker reaction time and it wants to strike so this is a very very dangerous snake something you want |
| 1:39.5 | to give a wide berth if you see it outside anywhere say in your garden or in the bushland |
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