00:02Before the rebuild, there'll be tough times in Wyala.
00:07There's a lot of anxiety.
00:10Members of the local men's shed have lived through decades of ups and downs at the steelworks
00:15but with 600 plus jobs gone this week, the community here is growing weary.
00:20Although people like to think we're resilient, there's been a lot of knocks over the years
00:27and I think people are getting tired of being resilient.
00:30Mental health worker Amy Morgan says there's already been an increase in demand for support services.
00:36For what we're going through, this is really large and I don't think there's going to be enough help everywhere.
00:42She knows personally what people are going through.
00:45Her husband, one of 40 workers that now shut down Iron Barren Mine, whose future is uncertain.
00:51So thinking about the fact that my husband might not have a job and we might potentially have to move
00:56is quite scary.
00:57There are now calls for more mental health support.
01:00What we need right now is federal and state governments to put in surge funding into mental health support into
01:07this community.
01:08There's already a three month waiting list.
01:10The state government says it's committed an extra million dollars to the wellbeing issue.
01:15We know when things like this happen and it's what we saw with Holden's as well
01:18that there needs to be those extra supports to get around families that might be affected, that might be concerned.
01:23Locals and workers are now not only dealing with the fallout from the job losses announcement.
01:28There's also ongoing uncertainty around when a buyer will be found and when the steelworks will return to full production.
01:35The flow on effects, far reaching.
01:37500 families is probably 10% of the town.
01:46It's hard to imagine that that's not going to have an impact.
01:49There's no sense of that may be a factor.
01:49If we'll see a lot of the money, we'll continue to get some information.
01:49That means we need to keep an eye on our own.
01:51Like the reason we wanted to keep an eye on the building.
01:51It's hard to keep an eye on our own.
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