He said reports of a seafood retail licence increase from $250 a year to more than $1200 were just more examples of Queensland non-government failing its local food industries and showing no consideration for Australia’s future food security.

“We are surrounded by seas rich with marine life – yet in 2009 we became a net importer of seafood.”

“Successive governments have almost totally destroyed our Australian fishing industry – forcing mums and dads to buy imported seafood from countries with polluted waters and lower food standards.”

“This 500pc tax increase will be the final nail in the coffin for our seafood industry,” Mr Katter said.

“The lack of logic behind this decision is astounding – they have effectively killed our fishing industry and have forced us to rely on imported seafood of questionable quality.”

“They’d do well to read the story of the Eureka Stockade. Hard-working men were turned into brutal bastards after being strangled by ridiculous, impossible regulations imposed by a punitive, oppressive government. These same men are heroes to many today.”

Mr Katter is in the process of setting up a farmers’ and small business fighting force in an attempt to claw back some of our rights – our right to fish, to farm, to produce, to manufacture, to employ and to earn a decent living like our parents and their parents.

“We have been stripped of these rights and strangled by bureaucratic red tape – we must and will fight back,” he said.

“It’s time we stood up for the right to feed our own country. In between nine and 20 years, we will become a net importer of all food.”