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Australia’s largest steel manufacturer offers to help Whyalla steelworks following onsite job losses
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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10 months ago
More jobs have been lost in Whyalla with steelworks contractor Fenner Dunlop telling up to 20 staff that the local business is closing. Australia's biggest steel manufacturer has extended an offer of help to the embattled Whyalla steelworks.
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Australia's largest steel manufacturer, offering a hand of support for Wyalla.
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We're a steelmaker, I understand the challenges of being a steelmaker and we stand ready to
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help if and when we're needed.
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The Premier on the weekend met on the sidelines of Live Golf with Blue Scope Steel's CEO Mark
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Vasella.
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Current Steelworks owner GFG owes tens of millions of dollars to private businesses
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and to the state government in the form of royalties.
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Any interest of Blue Scope in the Wyalla asset would have to be assessed at the time.
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I mean it's currently owned by someone else so it's hard to speculate on what the outcome
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for Wyalla might be.
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When asked about the possibility of a government or Blue Scope takeover of the Wyalla Steelworks,
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Mr Malinowski has indicated he'd prefer it to stay a private business.
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Governments can't have a hands off attitude but we have to be doing it in collaboration,
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having a hands on attitude in collaboration with the private sector.
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The opposition is calling for the government to give some relief to local creditors.
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What I would be more happy with is if the Premier came up with a way to get this $50
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million that is sitting there and parked and getting some of that into the pockets of contractors
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and small business operators.
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Mr Malinowski says that money is set aside for an investment in the transformation of
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the steelworks to create green steel and that creditors are owed money by Steelworks owner
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Sanjeev Gupta, not taxpayers.
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The opposition is also moving to introduce an upper house select committee to probe the
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government's proposed $600 million hydrogen project, which has been thrown into doubt
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amid the crisis at the Wyalla Steelworks.
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The proposal would need crossbench support.
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