Biosecurity Queensland denies public access to fire ant program meeting in Somerset region in SEQ as infestation spreads. Businesses only invited. Why?

General Manager of the National Red Imported Fire Ant Eradication Program, Graeme Dudgeon, told the 'Gatton Star' the Somerset Region in south east Queensland is close to being fire ant free because the program is into its third season of treatment. Fact: Five areas in the Somerset Region were infested by June 2018. Nine were infested by Novem...

With a backlog of thousands of untreated fire ant nests Biosecurity Queensland is throwing an expensive cocktail of chemicals at them: to improve the statistics rather than kill ants. Time for a Royal Commission.

Dr Wendy Craik, Chair of the National Fire Ant Program, told the 'Brisbane Times' the program had eradicated 5 incursions of fire ants, knowing the program has never collected reliable data to support any claims of success. Time for a Royal Commission.