29 Nov 2018

Fire ants infesting a new housing estate in Fernvale: putting the safety of residents at risk. Another Biosecurity Queensland fail!

Dozens of new housing estates in south-east Queensland have become infested in recent years because Biosecurity Queensland does not control the movement of fire ant carriers like soil and mulch out of infested areas. Biosecurity Queensland’s Work Plan for 2017-18 was to monitor and enforce controls on the movement of fire ant carriers outside ...

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28 Nov 2018

Fire ants out of control. 321 suburbs infested: up from 284 in 2016. Another 26 likely infested. Time for a Senate inquiry.

2001 US experts said people carelessly or accidentally moving fire ants in truck-loads of soil, mulch or compost is the greatest threat. A program to tightly contain fire ants to a small area would likely have resulted in an infestation a fraction of what it is now and cost a fraction of the $440m+ wasted so far. Instead, Biosecurity Queensland di...

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19 Nov 2018

Queensland Minister says fire ant program 'world class.' Fake news!

Queensland Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, Mark Furner, told ABC news the fire ant eradication program is ‘world class.’ Truth: The fire ant program has wasted $400m+ of public money and the infestation is now ten times worse. Truth: There is not a scrap of scientific evidence that eradicating fire ants from south-east Queensland...

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