Queensland sugar miller aims to reopen next week following cyber attack
By Aimee Mitchell

Mackay Sugar tells growers it is aiming to restart cane processing early next week, after a cyber attack forced it to stop on Wednesday.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-12/mackay-sugar-mills-shut-by-cyber-attack-hope-to-reopen-next-week/106792420

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Sugarcane industry to plan for future as worries about urban sprawl grow
By Sophie Johnson and Christopher Testa

Sugarcane growers near Cairns say urban expansion is reducing farmland and putting the region's sugar industry at risk.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-10/urbanisation-threatens-cairns-sugarcane-industry/106776116

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Smut threatened to destroy sugarcane farming but ended up reshaping it
By Tayla Larsen

Twenty years ago, a Queensland farm became ground zero for a disease the sugarcane industry was dreading. Instead of destroying the industry, the response quietly transformed the state's biosecurity and farming practices.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2026-06-09/twenty-years-on-from-east-coast-sugarcane-smut-outbreak/106731608

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