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Greetings from North Queensland -not Magnetic Island.
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There are three subjects which send Murdoch newspapers in North Australia into a white pointer shark like feeding frenzy...sharks, crocodiles and cyclones. Currently, it is sharks . In one day , March 22, the same illustrated story about sharks caught in various bays around Magnetic Island was run with different headings . In the Brisbane Courier Mail it was ISLAND BAY MAGNETIC WHEN IT COMES TO ATTRACTING SHARKS and the Townsville Bulletin went with MAGGIE SHARK CONTROL PROJECT REELS IN RESULTS .
The following day, the Townsville Bulletin did a follow up with a close up of a large shark from Jaws central casting , the heading SHARK PARADISE Danger lurks in the warm waters of Magnetic Island. It came with a regurgitated , inappropriate, stock pic of a smiling reporter.
The same edition ran a color display advertisement for Fantasea cruising to Magnetic Island 25th anniversary car ferry Easter services . After all the publicity about sharks , the fast filling spaces announced in the ad may suddenly be the subject of cancellations . It is doubtful if anybody will put a toe into the sea after all this shark coverage .
And Magnetic Island " Toad Master" , Vern Jack, who unfortunately had a leg amputated last year, was reported in the Townsville Bulletin as offering to take Lucy Turnbull , wife of the PM , who used to be a director of the Sealink ferry service to Magnetic Island ,on a conducted tour of the island . Methinks that with her husband coping with so many sharks within his own party , she will be needed by his side, armed with a Japanese explosive tipped whaling harpoon gun, to scientifically protect him over Easter and in the seething Sargasso Sea election filled with denizens of the deep.
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Little Darwin Ephemera Photographs .
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