Dr Pam Swepson Writer and Researcher.
Biosecurity Queensland is spending $$$m of public money hiring helicopters and hundreds of field staff to dump thousands of tonnes of expensive, water-sensitive fire ant bait over thousands of hectares of rain-soaked south-east Queensland while the ants stay safe underground. How many areas now fire ant free? None.
Read MoreAfter ignoring scientific advice to contain and suppress a well-entrenched fire ant infestation, 20 years too late Biosecurity Queensland, is trying to contain and suppress an out-of-control infestation. Biosecurity Queensland’s unscientific and incompetent eradication attempt has inevitably failed. If the Commonwealth government keeps throwi...
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