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There was a politician who swallowed a fly. I don’t know why he swallowed a fly — his name was Roger and he wears a tie. For a brief moment on Monday morning it appeared that Mandurah had a pest invasion on its hands. Premier Roger Cook, Treasurer Rita Saffioti and Mandurah mayor Rhys Williams doused themselves in insect repellent before a press conference by the often mosquito-stricken Peel Estuary, to no avail.
“As a former Minister for Health I’m right into a high protein diet, but that’s ridiculous. It went straight down,” he said. The CSIRO has described the approaching warmer season as like “schoolies week for flies, but over three months” when young adult flies emerge from their winter rest “highly mobile, hungry, sex-obsessed.
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