A koala causes a stir on a highway in Queensland, Australia.

It brought traffic to a standstill in both directions.

Video shot by a couple caught up in the traffic jam shows police shepherding the marsupial until it eventually climbed up a tree.

"Only in Australia," says the Queensland pair who filmed the animal's antics.

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