00:00Justin Hoffman spent 20 years working at the steelworks and mines in Wyala.
00:07Now a produce farmer, he's avoided the recent troubles, but his business has been hit hard.
00:12We've lost half our income. This time last year we were at double where we are now.
00:17And we've lost friends and it's affecting everyone.
00:23He says morale in town remains low, despite GFG Alliance's owner declaring yesterday
00:28his ongoing commitment to Wyala.
00:30Everyone's still unsure of what's going to happen.
00:33We're unsure of what's going to happen.
00:35Even though they're making these promises, I'm not believing much.
00:39Sanjeev Gupta making assurances to the town in a one-on-one interview with the ABC.
00:43Our immediate job is to get the blast furnace up and running, stabilise operations,
00:48and we have a plan now to bring it back to full production, to take it back over a million tonnes.
00:52There's no cuts coming in the steel plant.
00:55In response, one business took to social media.
01:00The holding order's worth over $30,000. Try again, Sanjeev.
01:05Community leaders are watching closely.
01:07We judge on delivery and we don't judge on what people say.
01:12We've had a lot of promises in the past.
01:15And with plans for a switch from mining hematite iron ore to magnetite iron ore still in limbo,
01:20the union is unsure if recent job cuts will be the last.
01:24It's impossible to say definitely, because the hematite stream will come to an end.
01:31Young people are also being impacted.
01:33Hayden Cotterell hoped to stay and find work after finishing year 12 this year, but now plans to leave.
01:40It's kind of taken away any sense of security for after school, so the town feels less permanent.
01:48That sense of uncertainty weighing heavily on the town, with its vital blast furnace still offline.
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