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Peter Malinauskas

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Initially controversial, now beloved: Adelaide Oval’s major refurbishment completed in 2014 cost some $75 million more than the official $535 million price tag.

‘Like Sydney without an Opera House’: Why people whinge about stadiums

People love to complain about new stadiums. The cost, the noise, the politics. Until kick-off, when all is forgiven.

  • Michael Bleby

Yesterday

SA Treasury Stephen Mullighan

South Australian budget winners and losers

Whyalla residents and aspiring police officers are winners in the South Australian budget, but inflation is forecast to rise.

  • Simon Evans

This Month

A finishing mill operator at BlueScope’s North Star steel mill in Ohio.

This Australian firm is set to win from Trump’s steel call

The US tariffs come amid a global oversupply of steel, with the OECD warning capacity will expand by 7 per cent by 2027, much of it in China.

  • Simon Evans

May

Sanjeev Gupta.

Whyalla administrators in credit stand-off with Gupta’s InfraBuild

KordaMentha halted the delivery of steel for several days last week over a payment dispute as the relationship between the two businesses deteriorates.

  • Simon Evans
Sanjeev Gupta.

Sanjeev Gupta’s Tasmanian plant is the latest smelter to hit trouble

The decision to pause operations at the Liberty Bell Bay smelter adds to broader doubts about the economic viability of Australia’s metals smelters.

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  • Simon Evans
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Sanjeev Gupta’s Tahmoor Coal in NSW has not mined any coal for three months.

Sanjeev Gupta furious at risk of losing control of Whyalla port

The embattled British industrialist is set to have another asset seized while he tries to revive a “ghost” coal mine in NSW.

  • Simon Evans

April

Tom Venning, the Liberal candidate for the seat of Grey in South Australia, suffers a flat tyre on the campaign trail.

Meet the ex-Deloitte consultant who has driven 85,000km to win a seat

Tom Venning has a strong chance to be the new MP for a sprawling SA seat after exiting the corporate world with a hope to bring a back-to-basics economic approach.

  • Simon Evans
The government has given no logical explanation why YouTube is being exempted from its teen social media ban.

YouTube exemption exposes teen social media ban as a sham

The government’s preferential treatment of YouTube undermines the purpose of its under-16s social media ban, and is unfair to the other tech industry players.

  • Paul Smith
SA Premier Peter Malinauskas and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference in Monday morning in Adelaide.

Labor picks city to host climate summit, making it an election issue

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the COP31 summit will provide an economic boost to Adelaide that would be denied under a Coalition government.

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  • Ryan Cropp
The Whyalla steelworks needs about $180 million in repairs, technical experts from BlueScope have found.

BlueScope finds $180 million repair bill for Whyalla steelworks

While parties have begun circling the plant, run by businessman Sanjeev Gupta until February, administrators have been warned upgrades are urgently needed.

  • Simon Evans
The Whyalla steelworks was forced into administration in February as the SA government lost patience with Sanjeev Gupta’s unpaid bills.

Sanjeev Gupta refuses to hand over control of Whyalla port

KordaMentha has taken the British industrialist to court, claiming he refuses to hand it control of the town’s port, jeopardising plans to find a new owner.

  • Simon Evans
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

PM makes first Victorian campaign stop, but Allan is nowhere to be seen

There are four Labor premiers in Australia. Albanese is happy to stand alongside three of them.

  • Phillip Coorey
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Premier of South Australia Peter Malinauskas.

Labor’s not so secret weapon to win SA comes with limitations

Anthony Albanese has picked up the playbook of popular South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas, hoping that health funding will secure victory over Peter Dutton.

  • Tom McIlroy

March

The Whyalla steelworks only had three days worth of coking coal - vital in the steelmaking process - when KordaMentha took over. It has spent $60 million on orders to build up a buffer.

Whyalla steelworks in $60m emergency spend to secure coal supply

The steelworks’ administrators have secured coking coal from BlueScope, China and Indonesia to keep making steel after it was left with only three days’ supply.

  • Simon Evans

Whyalla steelworks halted, millions in capex urgently needed

“Because of the underinvestment, inadequate maintenance and servicing of critical infrastructure, the steelworks are in a state of disrepair,” says KordaMentha.

  • Simon Evans
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InfraBuild crashes to a loss of $81 million in the December half. It is the biggest customer of the Whyalla steelworks (pictured) which went into administration on February 19, with creditors owed $1.35 billion.

Gupta’s InfraBuild sinks to $81m half-year loss as debts balloon

Documents circulated to lenders show the company, which runs furnaces in Sydney and Melbourne, bought $140 million in steel from the collapsed Whyalla plant.

  • Simon Evans
The Whyalla steelworks entered administration last month after the South Australian government seized control.

Whyalla’s administrators say steelworks was ‘hard-wired’ for losses

The South Australian government expects KordaMentha to run the plant until mid-2026, after the mill was seized from British industrialist Sanjeev Gupta.

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  • Simon Evans
Does this government believe spending $3 to save patients $1 represents good value for taxpayers’ money?

This three-point plan can restore respect for taxpayers’ money

The three major announcements by the two major parties so far this election year perfectly encapsulate everything that is wrong with Australian politics

  • Steven Hamilton

February

The Pembertons on tour.

Sanjeev Gupta’s largest creditor leads an Insta-rich life

NRW Holdings has been revealed as Whyalla’s biggest creditor. The company’s CEO has been globetrotting while the Gupta debts hit home.

  • Mark Di Stefano
The SA government put Sanjeev Gupta’s Whyalla steelworks into administration on February 19 with emergency legislation, declaring it was fed up with unpaid bills and the damage to the town of 22,000 was simply too great for the Gupta ownership to continue.

December phone call led to Whyalla steelworks bust

A call to administrator Mark Mentha two days before Christmas culminated in the dramatic seizure of Sanjeev Gupta’s steel plant two months later.

  • Simon Evans

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