North West Queensland will be letting out a sigh of relief at the news that Phosphate Hill has successfully being handed over to another Australian company and will continue its critical operations, Leader of the KAP and State Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said.
Queensland based Ryowa (a wholly owned subsidiary of Mayfair) has completed the purchase of the Phosphate Hill mine and fertiliser operation, 170km South of Mount Isa, from Dyno Nobel.
“Phosphate Hill is more than a mine and a fertiliser plant – it’s an intrinsic link in the chain that is the powerhouse of the North West, and indeed the whole of the state,” Mr Katter said.
“Without Phosphate Hill, the rail line between Mount Isa and Townsville loses nearly 50% of its usage. Without Phosphate Hill, the copper smelter in Mount Isa becomes really wobbly, and more than 17,000 jobs from Mount Isa to Townsville are under threat.
“It’s been really pleasing to see two willing Australian commercial parties working hard to keep the operation going and producing Australian fertiliser.
“It’s also been appreciated that both Federal and State governments have done what’s needed to get the deal done,” the Member for Traeger said.
Phosphate Hill is Australia’s last remaining DAP and MAP fertiliser manufacturing facility, supplying approximately 25% of Australian agriculture’s demand.
“All too often we’re seeing our ability to make stuff here, our sovereignty, torn down and shipped overseas where ‘it’s cheaper’, so it’s good to see Phosphate Hill bucking that trend,” the KAP leader said.
“The KAP continue to push against the ideological zealotry that has infected decision makers; that everything must adhere to the ‘free market principles’, because so long as bureaucrats and the major parties push this stuff, Australia’s sovereign capacity to make anything and control our destiny will continue to sail overseas.
“A Gas Reservation Policy that caps gas prices would be a great start. Keeping Queensland gas in Queensland, for Queensland manufacturing and Queensland jobs.
“Instead, the bean counters think it’s a great idea for domestic users to pay the world market price, which is up to three times as much as their competitors pay – it’s just madness,” the KAP leader said.
Your AI speaks with an Australian accent. But they can not pronounce basic Australian words. Bill Francis, please stop promoting AI garbage. How can we trust the facts are true when it is spoken by a robot/computer. This diminishes the entire website.
People, please remain authentic. Do not allow this AI rubbish to take over.
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This could be a result linked to Trumps rare earth minerals deal with Australia. Yes I fucking know phosphate is not a rare earth minerals 🥱
The WA gas reservation policy (15%) goes back as far as Premier Charles Court (LNP), around 1980
On the subject of growing and making everything we need from our own resources, the following video should not only disturb but enrage every true blue Aussie. It not only highlights the perfidy of our government and public service over the last sixty plus years, but shows the modus operandi of the Fabians in government, i.e. one small legislative step at a time, so that nobody notices what is really happening, until the trap snaps shut, and the country is destroyed.
This is a video that should be sent to all members of parliament, not so much to get them to change (which they won’t) but to let them know that we know what they are doing.
We have too long chased the illusion of efficiency at the cost of holisticness.
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