Newsroom

April 23, 2022

KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter, says Australians should stand to defend their island against an aggressive Chinese Communist Party regime moving into the South Pacific, who only this week singing a security deal with the Solomon Islands.

During a passionate address, Mr Katter invoked Winston Churchill when attacking the Federal Government for leaving Australian ill prepared to defend itself.

“We can’t compete in a buying war with China. It’s basically the biggest economy on earth and we are a little tiny country. We can’t compete and we don’t compete,” Mr Katter said.

“British PM, Churchill said in World War 2, ‘we will stand to defend our island.’ They were outnumbered 50 to one. Guess who won in the end?

“Look at the Ukraine, holding off Russia one of the biggest armies in the world, it should be an inspiration to all of us.” 

Mr Katter has slammed the Federal Government for failing to develop arms, sovereign fuel security and missiles to defend against the threat from the Chinese Communist Party.

“In four and a half years you haven't built a rifle, a machine gun, you’ve stupidly built patrol boats that has only got machine gun on ’em,” he said.

“Jeez, that’ll terrify the Chinese, having that machine gun on those patrol boats. $60 million for a patrol boat that has a machine gun on it. It should have had 40 missiles on it.

“Every boy and girl in high school should be trained how to use a rifle, and those rifles should be stored in school armouries.

“We have three days fuel supply. The govt. will argue it’s 30 days, but there will be kilometre long queues at service stations if China embargoes our oil.

“The crossbench in Canberra agrees we need to tackle the issue of fuel sovereignty and security.

“The four-point plan includes Australian made ethanol, turning suburban waste into diesel (as is being done in Gladstone by Southern Oils), banning the export of Australia oil so that we refine it here, and Australian made electric vehicles for the cities.”