Whether steelmaking returns to Whyalla is only part of the story. The intervening years could have consequences of their own, and the community will need support.
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Amid news that 500 jobs will go at the Whyalla steelworks, once owned by Gupta’s GFG Alliance, The Big Steal is a powerful – and timely – work of journalism.
The SA government has convened an emergency meeting today to discuss taking cuttlefish eggs from the wild, due to the impending threat of the algal bloom which could wipe them out forever.
Preliminary results from computer modelling suggests the harmful algal bloom that has been killing marine life will return with a vengeance after winter and spread.
Is the government’s $2.4 billion package of assistance for Whyalla going to be money well spent?
Whyalla still has some key advantages when it comes to making steel that could make the plant an attractive asset to new prospective owners.
It’s essential to save the steelworks, but that
s just the start.
Far from being wiped off the map as was once predicted, Whyalla is coming back in an unlikely way, as potentially Australia’s biggest steel producer powered almost entirely by renewable energy.
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.
South Australia is facing a whole range of social and economic problems that are forming the perfect storm.
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Executive Director, SA Centre for Economic Studies, Adelaide University
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Director, Australian Industrial Transformation Institute, Flinders University
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Research Associate, SA Centre for Economic Studies, Adelaide University
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Professor of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Adjunct, Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor and Marine Ecologist, Adelaide University
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Adjunct professor, University of Tasmania
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Research Professor in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Anthropology, University of Newcastle