It should be a simple yes we will stop funding until environmental impact assessment is completed. What's wrong with these people that have to take every question on notice .

I bet she’s never been out of her office except for coffee

The EPA would be all over me as a pest controller and I’d sure as he’ll be held accountable. Yet apparently because it’s a government strategy it’s perfectly acceptable to poison the environment. Also the approach from the beginning has been wrong. Indiscriminate poisoning doesn’t work. Invicta will create a raft and float on water. That’s why they spread. The spread of poison is called inversion drift anyone who lives near a cropping environment knows this. The invicta builds a nest anything up to 2 metres below ground. They do however respond readily a vibrational threat which could have been utilised in the initial instance of discovery. A bit more challenging now. As for passing the buck to another department. That seems to be a standard practice for government on all levels. Anything on notice basically means I don’t give a fig and I’ll do nothing about Looking forward to the day any these bureaucratic ticks are held to account. As if that’ll ever happen. Do the math on how many penalty points would be dished out to an individual.

oh they are so frustrating. Quite happy to implement programmes but run away when held accountable.

Its scary how they are forging ahead bullying everyone despite so much proof that this is harmful on massive scale! They are not scared of accountability and consequences at all!

Another bureaucratic blunder, where over educated under experienced people are just going through the motions poisoning the country without really knowing the consequences of their actions

Sounds like they collect a pay check each week and do nothing for it! So over this corporation pretending to be govt of the people. They need locking up!

The whole system needs to be dismantled as all I'm seeing is criminal activity and they can take that on notice

This whole take it on notice BS has got to stop they should have the answers ready to go

Can't stand use of sprays ...and her absolute ignorance of the impact across species and community recreation spaces.

Ok, so when questions are taken on notice, is there a reasonable time frame in which we, the people, are assured an answer or are these public servants not obligated to give any answer ever?

How ignorant are these people?? Program successful??? Sure, it's like throwing an A-bomb to eradicate an ants nest....🤦 and these are the people in charge of our environment 🙄. They don't give a rat's about the environment or it's inhabitants- only their positions - which they don't deserve if they can't do it properly!!

This bs double talk is what happens when gov keep increasing gov beauractic departments ( under the disguise of creating jobs ) what should happen is at least a 50% reduction in gov beauractic departments ( which we know will never happen ) I think that must be the first thing they're taught when getting the job " I'll take that on notice I'll refer this to actual department I'll have to get back to you on that " etc etc this is why they get these positions as saying goes " they talk under water with a mouth full of marbles & still say nothing "

In our Shire the map of Fire Ant infected areas seems to me to be totally related to the areas that have had construction work involved in development of estates. I don't think anyone is policing the movement of soil, turf, etc. There are requirements on these businesses but maybe the penalties for non-compliance are insufficient to be a hindrance to developers & not enough serious policing is a problem. Mass indiscriminate spraying seems like a BAD answer to the problem. We don't have a fire Ant problem in our rural area and yet we have to have 3 treatments six weeks apart. That cost & risk of environmental damage seems to be ridiculous when we don't have them on our property. Urgent treatment of PROVEN infected areas & properties seems like a less expensive and probably a more affective way to handle the problem. Question "do other animals & insects know not to eat the corn baits?" I heard one instance whereby the treatment officer told a resident who is an apiariast & asked about the affect on their bees, he said "dont worry it only affects insects" - I kid you not!

What a load of crap i had contact with dpi yrs ago in regards to these ants in fnq the fruit bowl of Australia, they didn't really give a xxxx back then in 2019 ..except for a kit was sent to me to collect them & post the ant back & no once was there any follow up... Now this ....

So her answer to stopping fire ants destroying the environment is to destroy the environment. Not very "scientific" to me.

In this day and age we should have less government departments not more. Most of these bureaucrats don’t do anything

This is devastation on a grand scale shame on the 🤬

Why is she even speaking if it has "NO IDEA" . sack it now 🤬

Think it's time for these peoples money to be stopped, we want answers now, not taken on notice, who are the stake holders, stop payments to them now

I only wished that the fatcats could be sacked.

Wow! Just wow! What is she aware of?

That's because the commi b'stards are hell bent on destroying Oz and the ants are just a very convenient addition to that aim.

what is the name of the chemical used

Maybe whats killing the millions of earth worms during last nites toxic rain will sort them ants if not everything else..smelt toxic when it came down