It took just minutes for surprise laws to be introduced to Parliament and pass both houses giving the state government the power to place the Whyalla Steelworks into administration.
This deft procedure was necessary to not alarm GFG Alliance owner and billionaire industrialist Sanjeev Gupta to the government’s long-awaited action on the struggling steel plant.
The law changes were “surgical”, Premier Peter Malinauskas said, and offers the workers of the steelworks and the broader Whyalla community “certainty”.
But it’s a move that’s likely without precedent and precedes the announcement of what the Premier has described as “one of the most comprehensive industry support packages that this nation has ever seen”.
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