The Shark Net Podcast

Join Ali and Andre from Episode 2 of Season 2. We recap a horrific two months of whale entanglements, and even a humpback drowning, and also discuss how this is even legal in 2025. How can we be killing whales with taxpayer dollars, and how is it not against the law? This was recorded during the final sitting week of federal parliament for 2025, while Environment Law (EPBC Act) reform was being ac...

Welcome to Season 2 of the Shark Net Podcast. Andre and new co-host Ali will take you through everything that has happened since the last episode, which has been quite a lot! A brief overview of the updates in this ep: QLD New LNP Government $88m extra poured into shark culling EPBC Act, s43b Whale Entanglements Frozen out by DPI NSW Shark net removal trial, now abandoned Dee Why fatal shark bite...

A final update for 2024, with some looking ahead to 2025! Queensland As many of you may know, Queensland has changed government, and with it, there are new Ministers and portfolios . Ministers of note for us are: David Crisafulli - Premier Anthony (Tony) Perrett - Minister for Primary Industries Andrew Powell - Minister for the Environment and Tourism and Minister for Science and Innovation We hav...

Envoy: Shark Cull will drop on Netflix this month, right before the Queensland state election. It would be a huge help if you could please search for 'Envoy: Shark Cull' on Netflix, and click the "Remind me" button to be sure you don't miss it when it drops. If you can't find it in your region, please complete this form (https://help.netflix.com/en/titlerequest) . Eve...

Minister Tara Moriarty confirmed on 30/07/24 that shark nets would return for yet another summer, albeit with a one month shorter meshing season. NSW DPI shark programs leader Marcel Green said the changes this summer were the most significant made to the netting program in 40 years. If the biggest progress in a program designed to catch and kill threatened and protected wildlife in over 40 years,...

In short, yes. Here are the laws and potential fines if you were to choose to help wildlife in Queensland. Queensland Fisheries Act 1994 87 Interference etc. with aquaculture activity or fishing apparatus (1)A person must not unlawfully interfere with an aquaculture activity or fishing apparatus. Maximum penalty—500 penalty units. (2)In this section— interfere with includes— (a)for an aquaculture...

The current Queensland Shark Control Program (QSCP) operates on an underlying methodology of cruelty toward, and killing of endangered and protected wildlife. It can only operate without facing prosecution for animal cruelty charges on the basis of an exemption in the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 (Queensland) s.46 Use of fishing apparatus under shark fishing contract It is an offence exempt...

A very special, and much longer episode this week! When the Government fail to do their job properly, good people have to step in. This week we bring you the extraordinary story of four kind hearted citizens who took matters into their own hands when the Government fell short. Our guests encountered a distressed humpback whale ensnared in shark nets off the coast of Marcoola this morning (01/07/20...

A Joint Management Agreement is a document that NSW Dept of Environment (DCCEEW) will enter into with another Department, to allow them to kill protected species with legal impunity. It is a "license to kill". In the context of shark nets, Dept of Primary Industries (DPI) are not legally allowed to kill dolphins, whales, seals. It is illegal. Penny Sharpe and DCCEEW however gives DPI a l...

Each year, as humpback whales migrate along Australia's East Coast, the Queensland Shark Control Program’s (QSCP) nets become deadly obstacles for these majestic animals on the Humpback Highway. Whales are crucial for tourism however economic advantage aside, whales also deserve protection in their own right. Humpback whale populations have rebounded after the cessation of whaling in the 1960...