{"id":53743,"date":"2025-09-09T21:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/53743\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:09:07","slug":"do-shark-nets-work-abc-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/53743\/","title":{"rendered":"Do shark nets work? &#8211; ABC listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fatal shark attack on Sydney&#8217;s Northern Beaches at the weekend has reignited debate over shark nets and their effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>About 50 of the state&#8217;s beaches from Wollongong to Newcastle have shark nets installed between September and April each year.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, three Sydney councils were to trial the removal of some nets, but the New South Wales Government has hit pause following the fatality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ContentAlignment_marginBottom__4H_6E ContentAlignment_overflowVisible__N2zKU List_unordered__yNZx8\" data-component=\"List\" role=\"list\">\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\"><strong>Guest: <\/strong>Chris Pepin-Neff, Associate Professor in Public Policy and a global expert on human-shark interactions at The University of Sydney<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\"><strong>Producer: <\/strong>Eddy Diamond\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fatal shark attack on Sydney&#8217;s Northern Beaches at the weekend has reignited debate over shark nets and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[39156,39153,39152,18,39151,19,17,39155,39154,27985,133,39149,39150,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-53743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-abc-radio-national-breakfast","9":"tag-chris-minns","10":"tag-dpi","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-great-white-shark","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-long-reef","16":"tag-northern-beaches","17":"tag-sally-sara","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-shark-nets","20":"tag-smart-drum-line","21":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}