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‘Battle-hardened’ Whyalla waits for what comes next after Greensill collapse – The Guardian
The mood in the South Australian city one of cautious optimism – ‘for the first time in many years, the steelworks is in the black’
Whyalla is a manufacturing town, a place of hi-vis vests, of old-school manufacturing grunt. A city where, from some angles, the steelworks dominate the skyline.
Theres a new and spectacular circular jetty that everyone wants you to see, and big plans to develop the foreshore, which slopes to a glittering sea.
People visit for the giant cuttlefish that pulsate with colour in the watery depths.
And there are those who have been here for generations, stoically enduring the endless end-of-times predictions…
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