Australians already eat 16,000 tonnes of shark per year.

Culling a few more to make beaches safer for swimming is hardly an issue. This regularly happens in other parts of Australia and certainly other parts of the world.

However, suddenly it has become a cause celebre for fashionable activists the world over. oh, those poor sharks. They don't realise the underlying reason for the protests is to give the greens more visibility in the upcoming West Australian Senate election that has to be re-run.

Personally, I have zero issue with culling sharks near swimming beaches. There is 17,000 miles of Australian coastline after all, and 99% of it is not swimming beaches.

If people wish to protest about sharks, then protest about the killing of sharks for shark fin soup, where the rest of the body is then dumped instead of being used.