Politics never interested me until a spate of shark attacks occurred at my local Ballina beach next to the river mouth in 2015 and 2016.
Two of these attacks took place while I was surfing, one right in front of me. Over a period of two years, twelve shark attacks occurred along a 70 kilometre stretch of coast, eight within ten kilometres of Ballina, four within a kilometre of the river mouth.
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