Valerina Changarathil

Valerina Changarathil reports on a wide range of news and issues relating to businesses in South Australia across start-ups, technology developers, biotechs, mining and energy companies, agriculture and food, and tourism.

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Open letterCompanies

GFG Alliance executive chairman Sanjeev Gupta (with Mark Mentha, right) holds the keys to his new business at an event marking the official handover of Arrium's steel and mining operations across Australia to the GFG Alliance at the Whyalla steelworks in Whyalla, South Australia, Friday, September, 1, 2017. (AAP Image/David Mariuz) NO ARCHIVING

Gupta’s message to Whyalla: I can’t wait to be back

Sanjeev Gupta has written an open letter to SA, saying he cares deeply about continuing the strong steel manufacturing legacy of his “spiritual home” Whyalla.

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Gupta debtsCompanies

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 31, 2021: A general view of the WestConnex M4-M5 Link Construction Site at St Peters. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jenny Evans

GFG woes: Why Whyalla steelworks matters

The Whyalla steelworks operations is a key supplier to major ongoing national infrastructure projects, as it battles the debt storm engulfing UK-based owner Sanjeev Gupta.

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Anti-bullying campaignLeadership

New Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate on her first visit to Adelaide since becoming CEO Monday July 3, 2018, Australia Post outlet in City Cross will become home to a new dedicated contact centre for passport services - pic AAP/MIKE BURTON

Holgate to wear white to back ‘suffragette’ protest

Christine Holgate to appear in white at inquiry into ‘watches’ saga as supporters channel suffragettes, and AusPost warned not to ‘interfere’ with witnesses.

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Companies

First look Mortal Kombat images Picture - Warner Bros.

Rising Sun Pictures sold to US studio

International award-winning Adelaide special effects company Rising Sun Pictures says it will receive the funding it needs to grow under new US owner FuseFX.

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Business

JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN - APRIL 07: An empty vial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covashield vaccine is seen at the Police Hospital, on April 7, 2021 in Juba, South Sudan. South Sudan received 132,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on March 25 through the World Health Organisation's COVAX Facilities established to ensure all countries have equal access to Covid-19 vaccines. Apart from healthcare workers and elderly persons, South Sudan's top government officials are also expected to be vaccinated in this priority group. (Photo by Andreea Campeanu/Getty Images)

SA businesses join chorus for quicker vaccine rollout

Businesses in South Australia have joined the growing chorus of disappointment over the slow rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Gupta troublesCompanies

Supplied photos of Sanjeev Gupta, founder of Liberty House Group.Picture: Supplied

‘One-horse town’ Whyalla can’t suffer another collapse

Hundreds of GFG contractors – still paying the price of Arrium’s 2016 collapse – will be ‘decimated’ if steel operations are wound up, as a Plan B is sought from the government.

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Waste managementCompanies

FILLING UP: A landfill site at the Lucas Heights tip which is where some of Liverpool's rubbish ends up. Picture: SUPPLIED

Cleanaway shares soar on $2.5bn Suez assets deal

Cleanaway has agreed to pay $2.5bn for Suez’s local assets in a deal that is likely to eventuate only in the second half of the year, if at all, but investors are already celebrating.

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AVIATIONAviation

Qantas adds more SA-NT flights

Qantas has added more flights on its SA-NT routes from May 25, including doubling getaway offers to one destination.

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TakeoversCompanies

First crushing of significant metal waste extracted from landfill as part of City of Darwin's new contract with Veolia.Picture: Che Chorley

Veolia’s new warning against Cleanaway-Suez deal

French waste management giant Veolia has fired a fresh salvo against ASX-listed Cleanaway’s move to buy its takeover target Suez’s Australian assets, after new regulatory warnings.

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LEADERSHIPLeadership

30/03/21 - SA chair, ANZ Bank, Jane Yuile a prominent local businesswomen, has overcome personal and professional challenges to continue all her board and corporate responsibilities despite an accident leaving her a quadriplegic. Pictured at the ANZ Building in Adelaide.Picture: Tom Huntley

ANZ’s Yuile inspires through action

A simple act meant to inspire confidence transformed prominent SA businesswoman and ANZ state chair Jane Yuile’s life.

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