KAP Federal Member for Kennedy, Bob Katter, has delivered an urgent warning to Australia’s Prime Minister that without immediate intervention, rocketing fuel costs and unresolved supply shortages are critically threatening the viability of Australia’s sugar industry now and into the future.
In urgent discussions with the PM about the unfolding threat hanging over the iconic North Queensland industry, while Australians reconsidered their travel plans heading into Good Friday, Mr Katter emphasised the escalating concerns of local cane growers and industry more broadly through representations by Queensland Cane Agriculture and Renewables – warning the 2026 sugar harvest is now at serious risk.
Australia’s sugar industry generates over $2 billion in annual export earnings, with the manufacturing sector valued at approximately $3.9 billion. The industry, largely based in Queensland, crushes around 30 million tonnes of cane to produce more than 3.5 million tonnes of raw sugar annually.
The Far Northern cane industry, a significant part of it located in Katter’s electorate of Kennedy, is worried there will be insufficient diesel supplies to get through the harvest beginning in June and running through to December.
“Sugar is a multi-billion-dollar export industry underpinning regional Australia, and it is now under threat,” said Mr Katter. “Australia’s sugar industry requires around 100 million litres of diesel this season. Right now, farmers can’t get it or can’t afford it.”
In writing further to the PM and Australia’s Treasurer and Energy Minister, Mr Katter noted that:
- surging diesel prices (from $1.70/litre in early March to nearly $3/L by April) added more than $2.50 per tonne to production costs;
- supply delays of up to two weeks were being reported, with some farmers considering hauling machinery to service stations just to stay operational.
“This is pure idiocy that in a country so rich in resources, our farmers are lining up like we’re some sort of developing nation,” he said in further pointing to input costs digging farmers deeper into the global crisis including the near-doubling of fertiliser prices – with urea alone spiking from $900 to $1700 per tonne to add tens of thousands of dollars in costs for individual growers.
With sugar prices at about $46 per tonne and production costs now exceeding $58 per tonne, farmers are losing about $12.50 on every tonne produced. “This is simply unsustainable and it’s catastrophic for our sugar guys,” said Mr Katter. “Every tonne harvested is a loss. Every farmer is going to go backwards.”
Mr Katter also criticised the lack of transparency from the Federal Government regarding its plan for fuel security in the short-term – warning that regional industries have been left in the dark. “We are being told there are stages, allocations, even rationing… but no one can tell us when, how, or who decides,” he stated.
In ongoing discussions with the Prime Minister’s Office, Mr Katter has directly called for:
- 100% temporary fuel excise relief for critical industries not limited to primary industries;
- guaranteed fuel prioritisation for agriculture ahead of the cane-crushing season;
- full disclosure of Australia’s fuel reserves and supply risks; and
- immediate, direct communication with all agricultural stakeholders.
“If we cannot harvest and process our own crops, all Australians will pay for it at the checkout. This is about food security, jobs, and the survival of Australia,’ he said.
The persecution & torturing has already commenced by way of sonic weapons on those deemed to be nuisances
They put in so much surveillance around here, next step is crash the money, Swissy’s BIS local branch the RBA has already got their PayID going, this is the forerunner to CBDCs, they are trying to hyper-inflate us now
Neville Thompson said – “… I expect less than 12 months…”
No doubt the way things are headed right now, with LOCKSTEP manufactured destitution and famine and tyranny looming large around the world while our self-annointed “elites” continue to live unfettered lives of wealth and luxury and privelege and power on OUR backs, that would be eminently understandable and fully warranted. The sooner Mr. Rope and Mr. Lamp Post get here, the better.
However, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst would seem prudent. Numerical superiority is the ONLY decisive advantage held by the Useless Eaters, and if that abstract critical threshold of raw numbers to emphatically tip a rebellion in our favour is not reached, then any attempt at revolt against the myriad Globalist gangster institutions of fake corporate governance will likely be brutally and savagely suppressed by the corporate armies of craven low-life shit-for-brains hired mercenary killers entrenched throughout every Australian state and territory. While also empowering the Globalist psychopaths to go full retard and bring their Great Reset and New World Order down on our heads with greater violence and increased urgency.
They neither work for nor answer to us, and we’ve already seen up close & personal that they don’t give a rat’s arse about terrorising, persecuting, poisoning, maiming, bankrupting, impoverishing, starving, torturing and killing Australian men, women, children & babies.
Which is exactly why the Fat Lady will step forward and sing ONLY when a sufficient proportion of the Australian people have had enough and literally have nothing left to lose.
Pat from Vic I expect less than 12 months
Maggoo: Refined sugar isn’t much good for us but raw sugar is and molasses is great for livestock when their feed is scarce during droughts and floods for it provides them with enough nutrition to survive and they think it yummy .
The loss of sugar is not something to be worried about. AT ALL! You see, sugar is a pure acid! That’s why it’s put into absolutely everything you buy that is pre-made. It PROMOTES disease and cancer into the human body. Heck, it’s even put into canned vegetables to ensure you get you toxic dose for the day. My own mother did not put sugar into the vegetables she preserved, just like her own mother. Your body needs to be tending to an alkaline state to stop cancer in its tracks.
Start having your tea and coffee without it and get used to the taste. If you eat breakfast cereal, (heavens when I was a kid, there was no such thing!) don’t put extra sugar on it. During my grandmother’s time, (she would be around 140 -145 years if she were alive now), she did not even bake with sugar. My grandparents lived to a very old age, too (one each side, the other two died from accident and one from injuries incurred during the first war).
Good. I hope the crop fails and diesel runs out.
Aussies = bovine.
Joey said – “… we all do nothing…”
Exactly. Shooting the messenger doesn’t change the facts, just take a look around, for those with eyes to see.
And then Joey said – “… another 1000+ beehives destroyed…”
… and still the penny doesn’t drop. As they say, folks, you can take a horse to water…
Five or six more years.
Sturdy rope. Lamp posts.
How convenient, another 1000+ beehives destroyed, under the guise of varroa mite, in ALL corners of the ACT, ensuring future food shortages, further forcing up prices etc.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-08/act-varroa-mite-sees-over-1000-beehives-destroyed/106534718
@obvious_bob,
According to Pat, no matter what we do now, we are farked until in 5-6 yrs time.
He blindly believes (without questioning), in Martin Armstrong computer program ‘Socrates’.
According to him, we all do nothing & wait until that time arrives etc.
Just read your post at the bottom of the comments, Pat. So what are you doing about it? As I said above, I nailed my local fed, Richard Marles, with a BREACH OF CONTRACT allegation over the fuel. Have you don anything like that yet? I fear the answer may be in the negative, Pat, so can you fill us in, please?
You might find the reports yourself, but here is an article from 2013, which I sent to Richard Marles and then PM Rudd in 2014 along with the 2014 report. Never got a reply or acknowledgement from either:
https://www.asiapacificsecuritymagazine.com/disaster-would-leave-australia-with-three-weeks-of-fuel-nrma-report/
Were you onto it back then, Pat? Or any of you others too?
The week before last I wrote to my federal guy, Richard Marles levelling the charge of BREACH OF CONTRACT at him and the government, saying that-and the local Senator, Sarah Henderson’s staffer agreed with me when I called that office too-that the only role of government is service provision-contracted service providers, only. And that is the actual fact. I plan to write again stating that the fuel excise must go completely, as in just the last four years some $64 billion in fuel excise ha been harvested from Aussie motorists, that money being rightfully to be used to maintain and construct the nations roads which, as cairns News and other publications has often reported are in a seriously bad state, with many of our main national highways being outright dangerous.
That $64 billion is our money, not the governments, an has likely disappeared into Consolidated Revenue rather than being a separate fund to be dispersed to the states and, via the states, local councils, to fix the roads in their various jurisdictions.
Thus has not happened, at all, and, like the whereabouts and the truth of our fuel mystery fuel reserves, that money must be accounted for, and the excise done away with completely, and not just for a few months.
My video on the subject:
https://rumble.com/v77rezq-australian-fuel-supply-crisis-a-breach-of-contract-heres-why..html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_upp_a
Those billions could easily have been used to restore or rebuild the refineries that were shut down (have they been dismantled (and if so, that would have happened at enormous cost) and if not let’s see them reinstated.
What the government has done is tantamount to economic vandalism, at a national scale, threatening the viability of this resource-rich nation. And that is proof that this Labor government is not fit to govern, and neither are the Liberals, as they have been about as effective an opposition as the pet Chihuahua would be to pack of rabid wolves.
And it is about time that Aussies maybe did a Cheran and sacked everyone:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37612083
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At one of the duopoly supermarkets, Sydney:
8 March 2026: 650g Primo streaky bacon – $12.50; 8 April 2026 – $16,90.
$4.40 hike in one month. What;s it going to cost after the OIL Crisis kicks in ?
Making sure that Australia, the Lucky country, does not have it’s needs met is Labour/Liberal/Uniparty most important policy.
This is the real plan in actual action.
This will progressively break the backbone of Australians and their cultural dreams, and will replace them with a communist police state that tells them to shut up and be thankful for very small mercies.
Then they will invite the already established herein New world Order to takeover and rule and reign over us with AK47s and pistols, SWAT Teams, like they just did at my house, emptying us out onto the street with 15 minutes before arrest would take place. Then they robbed us of all our possessions as well, from our home of 19+ years.
Yes, … ONE NATION WILL BE A VERY WELCOME RELIEF FROM THIS AUSTRALIAN COMMUNIST REGIME.
The article headline screams – “.., Sugar harvest starts in June, could run out of diesel before it can be finished…”
Not “could”, folks, WILL, guaranteed.
It’s already baked into the cake, a dead certainty, unavoidable now.
And we have Super War CriminalTrump aka Peace President Ginger Nuts to thank for this.
As well as GENERATIONS of sold-out paid-off foreign-owned Treasonous anti-Australian stooges THROUGHOUT our fake CORPORATE Uniparty “government”, blood-soakd anti-Human baby-eating Luciferians who neither work for nor answer to us, traitors who obediently carry out their Globalist orders in LOCKSTEP with every other Western nation now circling the S-Bend alongside our own.
Got your stored food all sorted out yet, folks? Got plans to access water when you need it? Becaus how you gonna flush your dunny without it, let alone keep clean and keep thirst at bay. And what about power, folks, how you gonna run your fridge and freezer without it, let alone boil your instant noodles and make your coffee and all the rest?
Hey folks, have you heard? They’re going DOOR-TO-DOOR to get all the people’s guns in Canada, what doyou suppos they’re gonna be doing here in Australia IN LOCKSTEP?
Ready for the LOCKDOWNS yet, folks? Because they’re a-coming as sure as Snuff Scotty is a serial utterly remorseless and unpunished paedophile.
And the author quoted Bob Katter – “… “If we cannot harvest and process our own crops, all Australians will pay for it at the checkout. This is about food security, jobs, and the survival of Australia…”
But let’s be honest, folks, there’s a bright side, there’s some good news, a silver lining in the midst of all this doom and gloom, namely that our self-annointed “elites”, our foreign-owned sold-out paid-off baby-eating pollies and all the unelected beauracrats and public officials and corporate bigwigs and blood-sucking banksters, NONE of them will be going without, NONE of them will be wanting for anything, we can rest assured that they’ll have EVERYTHING they need to continue living their lives of obscene luxury and unfettered wealth and power and privelege. So there’s that.
We already KNOW that, folks, because WE’RE the one who’ll be paying for ALL of it. And the shit-for-brains hired mercenary thugs will be going door-to-door right here in Australia to beat whatever they want out of us, just to make sure that our Corporate Masters have everything and anything that they decide they need. And they’ll rape your dog and kill your Granny while they’re at it, just to remind you who’s calling the shots.