Amelia Lester

Apparently Sunday in Sydney was like the wettest day in nearly 40 years, right?

So much rainfall.

And our dated sewage pipes in Sydney mean that when that happens, you get faecal matter, raw sewage in the harbour.

And I've never really understood why that would impact sharks.

I thought that was because of bacteria.

I don't think I knew that either.

That's really interesting because experts have said in the wake of this that flyers were posted around swimming areas in the aftermath of Sunday saying that there was an elevated risk of bacteria, right?

If I'm a kid, in fact, even me, like would I take that as seriously as if I saw one that said something about the risk of sharks and it didn't mention the risk of sharks?

And it was this perfect storm in terms of its school holidays.

The wild weather also means that surfers jump in.

The second the sun comes out, you go, oh, we can get back to the beach.

Yeah, I think the literacy point is a really pertinent one because even in North Queensland, your knowledge of crocodiles is huge.

To your point, Amelia, I agree about the WA thing.

I think that if you live close to a beach in WA, your knowledge is just so much greater.

And so with all these people, you know, there's a lot of tourists and stuff in Sydney as well who are jumping in the water.

I think it's a really good point that the communication of this kind of stuff could be improved because

And I wish the conversation was going there rather than in the direction inevitably you've got Tony Abbott talking about shark culling.

No experts think that's going to make a difference.

Exactly, exactly.

Did you?