Mr Ganapathy adds that access to mobile phones, social media, roads and connectivity have made people more aware and less inclined to support an armed underground movement.
Handyman Charlie Simpson is one such person. He moved into his first home with his girlfriend a few months ago, and the keen gardener has already found two Sydney funnel-webs. He took the second spider to the vet, where Ms Teni picked it up shortly after."I had gloves on at the time, but realistically I should have had leather gloves on because their fangs are so big and strong," the 26-year-old says.
"I [just thought] I had better catch it because I kept getting told you're meant to take them back to be milked, because it's so critical.""This is curing my fear of spiders," he jokes.As Ms Teni offloads one arachnid that was delivered to her in a Vegemite jar, she stresses her team isn't telling Australians to go looking for the spiders and "throw themselves into danger".
Rather, they're asking that if someone comes across one, they safely capture it rather than kill it."Saying that this is the world's most deadly spider and then [asking the public to] catch it and bring it to us does sound counter-intuitive," she says.
"[But] that spider there now, thanks to Charlie, will… effectively save someone's life."
All of the spiders her team collects get brought back to the Australian Reptile Park where they are catalogued, sorted by sex and stored."Everything was filmed to present a fake image of prisoners with access to computers," Radalj said.
But, he claims, soon after the photo opportunity, the computers were wrapped up in plastic and never touched again.Throughout much of the ordeal, Radalj had been secretly keeping a journal by peeling open Covid masks and writing tiny sentences inside, with the help of some North Korean prisoners, who have also since been released.
"I would be writing, and the Koreans would say: 'No smaller… smaller!'."Radalj said many of the prisoners had no way of letting their families know they were in jail.