Mia Freedman

I think I knew that from Jaws, though.

The opening scene is always.

Yeah, I think that could be why.

Another thing I didn't know, in Sydney there are harbour beaches and ocean beaches and while I knew that you were not meant to swim at the harbour beaches after rain, I did not know you were not meant to swim at the ocean beaches after rain.

And another thing is Sydney is just way more rainy now than it was 30 years ago.

The water temperatures are higher and that's contributing also to the fact that there are more sharks coming closer to humans in the water.

So what I think we need is just like we have bushfire risk charts and signs all over Sydney,

The weather report talks about UV indexes.

I do think that we have to figure out a way to be more aware of how to coexist with sharks, and that might involve shark risk warnings, signs on beaches, inclusions in weather reports, and risk assessments like the ones we have with bushfire.

No, and different states are dealing with that in different ways.

Like, for instance, I learned this week that Queensland has year-round shark netting, and shark netting is a bit controversial, but...

That's their way of dealing with it.

Anecdotally, Western Australia certainly seems to have a higher shark awareness and a lot of the beaches, particularly in the southwest, do have permanent signs on the beach that say there is shark activity here.

So it is a matter of adjusting to a new reality, like the temperature is changing, the climate is changing.

Maybe Sydney does need to look into those kinds of measures.

And I think the good news is, though, that we can get there on awareness, just like I'm astonished by how much Australians know about sun safety and awareness compared with anyone else in the world, in part because we do have very high rates of skin cancer and we've decided to address that and tackle that.

We all know that.

how SPF works, how UV indexes work.

Most other countries don't have that kind of information.

So we can do the same thing for sharks.