More fake science from Biosecurity Qld's Fire Ant Program. Fire ants contained to 1/2m ha? No. Fire ants stopped from spreading 69m ha? No. Time for a Royal Commission

Dr Wylie, Science Manager of Biosecurity Queensland’s Fire Ant Program, recently claimed in a television interview that Biosecurity Queensland had contained the spread of fire ants to 500,000ha of south-east Queensland and stopped fire ants from spreading 69,000,000 ha between Sydney, Mackay and Charleville. A study Biosecurity Queensland com...

Biosecurity Qld's fire ant fiasco creates 300 jobs, chaotic management creates high turnover, gold mine for recruitment agencies, $80m wasted.

In 2001, Minister Henry Palaszczuk rejected scientific advice to tightly contain the spread of fire ants in south-east Queensland to use national funding for an eradication program to create 400 jobs when Queensland’s unemployment rate was 8.5%. Biosecurity Queensland’s 2001-2016 Fire Ant Eradication Program was a gold mine for recruitment...

Former govt employee Pam Swepson says fire ants out of control in Redland development areas