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KordaMentha gets second bite of the Whyalla apple

Mark Di StefanoColumnist

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Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: KordaMentha’s Mark Mentha landed in Adelaide on Wednesday night. On Thursday morning, the administrator was on the ground in Whyalla, we’re told, doing his orange high-viz thing.

Mentha and colleague Sebastian Hams are heading up the forced administration of the steelworks by South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas. If there are any out-of-staters who know the best coffee shops on the main drag, it’s these two vets.

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Mark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.distefano@afr.com

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