Re: Mandurah Mail, November 27, 320 kg tiger shark caught from Falcon beach: this is clearly a swimming and surfing beach. How they do this is either by paddling out 750/950 meters and dumping buckets of blood and the hook/bait or dropping the same from a drone. This attracts the shark towards the shore and as such to their trap.
Doesn't anyone else think it is insane to attract into a swimming/surfing beach such an ocean killer, then tag such and let it go?
If you want such a sport then buy a boat and do so a couple of kilometers off shore. This sort of fishing should be banned from any swimming surfing beach. Fish all you want. But, don't fish where humans swim. It's pretty basic, I think.
Owen Thomas, Dawesville
First class effort
On October 22 you published an article about the Mandurah Christmas charity ride. I am just writing to say a sincere thank you for this first class effort. It had the effect of people now knowing that the ride will go ahead and we can support families who are really struggling.
Graham Cowell, Mandurah
Make up your mind
I wish Opposition leader Lisa Harvey would make up her mind what she would like to see done with the borders. One minute she is wanting the border opened, so families can be together for Christmas. She also wanted the border opened months ago at the height of the pandemic.
Premier Mark McGowan is opening the border to every state but NSW and Victoria; she now is making comment that she hopes he is doing the right thing.
I don't think Ms Harvey remembers what she says from one day to another, all she wants is her five minutes of fame.
So far she has no policy, all she does along with Dawesville MP Zak Kirkup is criticise.
We are lucky that she wasn't in office from the start of this pandemic, I hate it, imagine where we would be. If she changes her mind about the border as many times as she has done, God help us if she gets into office.
She needs to be very grateful that we have a Premier that looked after this state.
Kerry Withers, Greenfields
Widen the bridge, Templeman
Mandurah MP David Templeman needs to get his government to widen the Mandurah Estuary bridge.
He has wasted nearly $9 million on a witch hunt on the Perth City Council.
The $10 million that has been given to Peel Health Campus would have been expected for a city our size.
Keith Norgate, Falcon
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