{"id":132165,"date":"2025-09-09T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132165\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:29:07","slug":"do-shark-nets-work-abc-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132165\/","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<p>Guest: Chris Pepin-Neff, Associate Professor in Public Policy and a global expert on human-shark interactions at The University of SydneyProducer: Eddy Diamond\u00a0<\/p>\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":132166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[72057,49,48,72054,72053,11592,72056,72055,47206,66,72051,72052,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-132165","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-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-chris-minns","12":"tag-dpi","13":"tag-great-white-shark","14":"tag-long-reef","15":"tag-northern-beaches","16":"tag-sally-sara","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-shark-nets","19":"tag-smart-drum-line","20":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}