Can someone please ID this caterpillar

[taswegian]

Found wandering across the clothes line.
He was very striking.
regards

[ryantmalone]

Almost looks like the Spitfires that we used to get in the house I grew up in. They used to chill in the gum trees out back.

I'm probably wildly wrong though...

[phan_TOM]

It looks like a tussock moth of some sort.

we used to get these ones (below) at our old house, usually on the lime tree and at a certain time of year a different type, a smaller darker species, would turn up en masse, dropping from the trees by a strand of silk. They would be everywhere and would cause a pretty strong irritation to the skin if touched which was tricky as hundreds would be dangling at diferent heights from the trees...

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[taswegian]

Thanks.
I'd go along with a Tussock Moth in some form.
Spitfire associate with Koalas don't they? Read that somewhere.

We occasionally get the smaller version of my clothes line hopper and en masse.
Not very nice when working in their territory.