As reported by ABC on Sunday:
A Sydney mayor and a state MP have joined anti-shark nets campaigners at Bondi Beach to call on the New South Wales government to finally ban the practice.
The controversial nets have gone into 51 beaches along the coast from Newcastle to Wollongong, in line with the government's Shark Management Program announced in July.
The campaigners argue the nets are ineffective in protecting swimmers, providing a "false sense of security" while killing marine life indiscriminately, including threatened species.
In our view at Envoy Foundation, this is being done illegally as DCCEEW and DPIRD are both in ongoing breach of the Joint Management Agreement (JMA) that governs the shark nets. This means they have not legal defence for breaches of Biodiversity laws.
No valid JMA = no legal defence.