Decades of expansion for Whyalla were followed by decades of contraction. Whyalla has seen optimism and idealism but also, if not despair, then its close neighbours, alienation and apathy.
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Footy isn’t just the dominant spectator sport and topic of conversation in South Australia. It’s a salve.
History is writ large in the remote areas around Woomera and the Nullarbor: from the fossils of microscopic, cell-like creatures to ancient stone tools to the deitrus of rocket tests and the painful legacy of the Maralinga atomic blasts.
For once in its life, under the premiership of Don Dunstan, South Australia felt like the very centre of the universe.
