MANY Australians dislike their country's reputation as a hotbed of deadly creatures, but it is a brave surfer who has never felt a prickle of anxiety at what lurks beneath the surf. Laeticia Brouwer, a teenager who was recently killed by a shark in Western Australia, was the state's third such fatality in under a year, and the 14th nationwide since 2012. Her death has re-ignited a debate over how to deter attacks in a country that may have lost a prime minister to one (though it is more likely that Harold Holt, who vanished while swimming in 1967, simply drowned).
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