“If we hadn’t had heavy bars across the doors they would’ve broken the doors down and come in and killed us for sure.”

A remote Queensland pub owner has told of the terror she and nine others experienced when her hotel was pelted with rocks and iron bars during a riot on Saturday night.

Pam Forster also wants something done about a potent alcoholic cocktail that she claimed sparked the hour long ordeal, and is damaging local indigenous communities.

Ms Forster owns the pub at Urandangi, a town with only 14 permanent residents about two hours southwest of Mount Isa, near the Northern Territory border.