Not all Australian spiders are big and scary. This little creature is a Flower Spider, also known as a Crab Spider. It’s perched on a tree fern:

When my phone got too close (to take the picture) the spider bunched its legs together, all the better to hide from the incoming UFO:

The spider was tiny. About three to five millimetres long, I’d guess. Here’s an unzoomed-in version of the first picture, to give you a better idea of perspectives: