Fire ants spreading like wildfire because Biosecurity Queensland has never stopped them. Told to in 2001. Never did. Time for a Royal Commission.

Failed! Biosecurity Queensland's $411.4m 10 Year Fire Ant Eradication Plan (2017-27) says Lockyer Valley to be fire ant free in 2025, but ants keep spreading. Time for a Royal Commission.

2016 Magee review said eradicating fire ants from SEQ feasible with new helicopter surveillance. There is no heli-surveillance. Magee got plumb job. Qld public got more fire ants. Time for a Royal Commission.

Between 2001 and 2015, the National Red Imported Fire Ant Eradication Program, managed by Biosecurity Queensland, wasted $400m of public money chasing the last fire ant to eradicate it while the infestation blew out from 40,000ha to 400,000ha. In 2015, the Australian Agriculture Ministers’ Forum commissioned a review to determine the course fo...