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Amanita muscaria
I guess probably Amanita muscaria, a hallucinogenic (and potentially deadly) mushroom. Wikipedia mentions A. xanthocephala as a potential confusion species in Australia but also says it generally lacks the white spots that A. muscaria has: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_mus... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_xan...