Editing Redback spider (section)

==Cultural influence==
[[Indigenous Australians]] in New South Wales mixed the spiders' bodies with the venom of snakes and pine tree gum to form a broth used to coat spear tips.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64034545 |title=The Aborigines of New South Wales{{snd}}their Habits, Laws, and Customs. |newspaper=[[Illustrated Sydney News]] |location=NSW |date=14 April 1883 |page=14 |publisher=National Library of Australia |access-date=1 September 2013 |archive-date=19 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019063041/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/64034545 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Slim Newton]] drew popular attention to redbacks with his song "[[The Redback on the Toilet Seat]]", which won the [[Golden Guitar]] at the first [[Country Music Awards of Australia]] in 1973.<ref>{{cite web|title=Slim Newton|publisher=The Country Music Store|date=2 January 1998|url=http://www.countrymusic.com.au/bellbird/Biographies/Slim%20Newton.htm|access-date=24 September 2013|archive-date=27 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927162727/http://www.countrymusic.com.au/bellbird/Biographies/Slim%20Newton.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bellbird Music|publisher=The Country Music Store|date=6 July 2009|url=http://www.countrymusic.com.au/bellbird/|access-date=24 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927162725/http://www.countrymusic.com.au/bellbird/|archive-date=27 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Newton recalled an occasion when a friend used his outside toilet where the light globe had blown and reported he was lucky there was not a redback spider on the toilet seat. The phrase inspired him to write the song.<ref name="Musgrove">{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46445461 | title = Slim Newton and His Spider | last = Musgrove | first = Nan | newspaper = [[The Australian Women's Weekly]] | date = 2 August 1972 | access-date = 3 November 2013 | page = 7 | publisher = National Library of Australia | archive-date = 19 October 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211019063041/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46445461 | url-status = live }}</ref> <!--The song is often erroneously ascribed to [[Slim Dusty]].[http://www.onlysydney.com.au/slim-newton-redback-on-the-toilet-seat]--> A sculpture of an impossibly large redback, one of [[Australia's big things]], was built in 1996 at [[Eight Mile Plains, Queensland|Eight Mile Plains]], Queensland.<ref>{{cite book | last = Clark | first = David | year = 2004 | title = Big Things: Australia's Amazing Roadside Attractions | publisher = Penguin Books | isbn = 0-14-300200-7 |page=62}}</ref> [[The Angels (Australian band)|The Angels]] 1991 album ''[[Red Back Fever]]'' takes its name from the spider.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Dictionary of Performing Arts in Australia: Opera, Music, Dance|year=1996|publisher=Allen & Unwin|isbn=978-1-86373-898-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ELACebeQEgcC&q=red%20back%20fever%20angels&pg=PA9|author1=Atkinson, Ann|author2=Knight, Linsay|author3=McPhee, Margaret|page=9|access-date=1 November 2020|archive-date=19 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019063040/https://books.google.com/books?id=ELACebeQEgcC&q=red+back+fever+angels&pg=PA9|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Tulich|first=Katherine|title=Oz invaders: who they are, how they sound. (Australian musical acts) (Spotlight on Australia)|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/51165253?c=article&versionId=64102657|magazine=Billboard|date=9 May 1992|volume=104|issue=19|page=A6|issn=0006-2510|access-date=6 November 2013|archive-date=11 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111090818/http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/51165253?c=article&versionId=64102657|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Matilda Bay Brewing Company]] produces a wheat beer called Redback,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EX5VAAAAIBAJ&dq=matilda-bay-brewing&pg=3117%2C632338|title=Hoppy Flavors Fit Company for Food|newspaper=The Age|date=23 August 1988|page=31|access-date=27 August 2020|archive-date=19 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019063040/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EX5VAAAAIBAJ&dq=matilda-bay-brewing&pg=3117%2C632338|url-status=live}}</ref> with the distinctive red stripe as the logo.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brewsnews.com.au/2012/10/would-the-real-first-matilda-bay-beer-please-stand-up/ |title=Would the Real First Matilda Bay Beer Please Stand Up? |publisher=Australian Brews News |website=Brewsnews.com.au |date=2 October 2012 |access-date=2 September 2013 |archive-date=28 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928164154/http://www.brewsnews.com.au/2012/10/would-the-real-first-matilda-bay-beer-please-stand-up/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The redback formerly appeared in the name and emblem of the [[South Australia cricket team]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/saca-goes-in-to-bat-on-logo/story-e6frea83-1111116848650 |title=SACA goes in to Bat on Logo |work=The Advertiser |date=6 July 2008 |last=Lower |first=Gavin |access-date=4 September 2013 |archive-date=3 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003002050/http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/saca-goes-in-to-bat-on-logo/story-e6frea83-1111116848650 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.redbacks.com.au/ |title=Home |work=West End Redbacks |publisher=self-published |date=29 August 2013 |access-date=2 September 2013 |archive-date=30 December 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121230185818/http://www.redbacks.com.au/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Airborne Redback]], an Australian [[ultralight trike]], was also named after the spider.<ref name="WDLA04">Bertrand, Noel; Coulon, Rene (2003). ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003–04''. Lancaster OK: Pagefast Ltd: 92. {{ISSN|1368-485X}}</ref> [[Redback Boots]] is an Australian workboot manufacturing company,<ref>{{cite news|last=Booth|first=Meredith|title=Boots jobs 'safe' in Adelaide after plant closes|url=http://www.news.com.au/national/boots-jobs-safe-in-adelaide-after-plant-closes/story-e6frfkx9-1111112851173|access-date=6 November 2013|newspaper=News.com.au|date=18 January 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208065147/http://www.news.com.au/national/boots-jobs-safe-in-adelaide-after-plant-closes/story-e6frfkx9-1111112851173|archive-date=8 December 2013}}</ref> which uses the spider in its name and logo.<ref>{{cite web|title=Redback 100% Australian Boot Company|url=http://www.redback.net.au/|publisher=self-published|work=Redback Boots|access-date=6 November 2013|archive-date=4 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104124714/http://www.redback.net.au/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2006 a redback spider postage stamp was designed as part of a "Dangerous Australians" stamp series, but was withheld from general circulation by [[Australia Post]] due to concerns that the realistic depiction would scare people opening their [[letter box]]es.<ref>{{cite news|title=Spider Stamped On|date=6 July 2006|work=Sydney Morning Herald|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/stay-in-touch/the-daddy-of-all-pirates/2006/07/05/1151779012831.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2|access-date=11 November 2013|archive-date=30 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230192408/http://www.smh.com.au/news/stay-in-touch/the-daddy-of-all-pirates/2006/07/05/1151779012831.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2012 an episode of the children's TV show ''[[Peppa Pig]]'' in which the title character picks up and plays with a spider was banned from Australian television due to fears that it would encourage children to pick up and play with redback spiders.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zhou |first=Naaman |date=2017-09-05 |title=Peppa Pig 'spiders can't hurt you' episode pulled off air in Australia – again |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/sep/05/peppa-pig-spiders-cant-hurt-you-episode-pulled-off-air-in-australia-again |access-date=2023-10-18 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>