Tony Lavis know the lakes well not a long way from here, but the sea is very different sharks feed on bait fish and herd them near shores or just find them there.
In about a month, sadly as the season for swimming gets warmed up, sharks will again attack from Balian south to at least Evans heads and in WA people will be maimed and even killed
Forster has schools of salmon feeding just outside the wave line with catches of ten in an hour not unusual, we can not afford to net the whole coast so killing is the best option.

If we stop for a moment and think.
Firstly lets remove emotions from this topic.
Now lets look at the natural order of things.
Humans are the greatest predator of them all.
That's OK, it's not a bad thing, I'm just setting the parameters or terms of reference.
Now vegetarians have been mentioned as a suggestion to possibly leaving all living creatures off the 'kill' list.
It is a fact that vegetarians are mentally deficient.
ANYONE who knows ANYTHING about the animal world, of which humans are included, will tell you, for a truly balanced diet, we need meat.
A simple reference to our 'canine' teeth will confirm this.
So more to the point, yes we should as a matter of course and survival, and common sense, cull as many of these dangerous creatures as possible.
I do not subscribe to the belief that if we are encroaching on some creatures territory, then WE are at fault and therefore if we get killed, too bad.
This totally mindless notion that we should not kill or cull, for that matter, is pure nonsense.
There is even a case for culling the human species.
Considering that at around 6 or 7 billion people on the planet, (being the largest number of any species) we could do with a cull ourselves.
It's not so far fetched an idea when you consider that feeding the world is becoming an ever challenging exercise.
So, 'Should we be killing those sharks'?
ABSOLUTELY!

ALTRAV agree, in the end those you highlight often make choices for us all from a point few share, vegetarians about eating meat.
Non swimmers about killing sharks.
Japan kills whales, we are told for experiments but in truth to eat, but that is another issue.
In the end in a country that tells the world of our Bondi Beach, the revells in our beach culture, sharks that are near swimmers should be culled

Cullnig sharks should be according to the species, beginning with the top predator.
1; Money Sharks. Then train the Great Whites & Tigers & Whalers how to sus out useless bureaucrats & other pointles humans whilst they're polluting the water with their mere presence.

//Should we be Killing those Sharks?//

We already are, have been for years. Shark populations are in steady decline, and a fraction of what they used to be.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RrYYCPQgucg/T4ZOagO5yHI/AAAAAAAAD7c/SBzKdhoRLRI/s1600/shark%2Bdecline.jpg
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/5304214/shark-numbers-are-declining-and-thats-bad-news-for-australia/
http://phys.org/news/2018-03-decline-shark-populations-remote-pristine.html
http://www.sharks.org/blogs/science-blog/sharks-in-decline
http://www.coml.org/discoveries/trends/shark_decline_effects.html

So as the shark population has declined, the number of attacks (according to Belly) has skyrocketed (not sure if that's actually the case, couldn't find any helpful stats on a quick search). In other words, there seems to be an inverse relationship between shark populations and attack rates.

In which case, how is reducing their population even further supposed to help? Wouldn't that just drive up the attack rate? If we had higher shark populations in the past and that was correlated with less frequent attacks, shouldn't we be trying to help shark populations increase in order to reduce the frequency of attacks?

Toni, I'm not sure how to process your suggestion on INCREASING shark numbers.
My immediate reaction is, 'absolutely not'.
Then I began trying to work out how it could be possible that, firstly shark numbers are down.
Secondly, how it could correlate with attacks on humans.
I don't know where you got your references from but I am adamant about one thing, and that is, I definitely do not subscribe to the theory of 'increasing' the shark population, at all.
I would in fact promote the idea of culling them into extinction.
Along with crocodiles, just to mention two.
There are a lot more I would add to that list.
People will argue that by extinguishing whole species, it will somehow affect the balance of nature.
I say, nothing will happen, except we humans won't have to worry as much, when we are out and about, as we did before.
It's not a competition as to what kills more or less humans.
It is quite simple.
We are the dominant species and therefore we must 'dominate'.
There is no excuse or reason why we must put up with innocent people dying because of some damn useless, dangerous animals.
No reason at all.
I can understand these fools dying by mis-adventure.
They put themselves in harms way and paid the ultimate price.
But when someone is going about their business, not doing anything wrong, and gets killed, through no fault of their own, then it is highly irresponsible of the community if they do not react in a firm and decisive way.
If that means killing a species off to protect human life, then so be it.
It's a no-brainer as far as I'm concerned.
For those who disagree, stop and think, if the next death is someone you know or love, and it would not have happened if we had a real killing/culling program on permanently.