'Battle-hardened' Whyalla waits for what comes next after Greensill collapse

The mood in the South Australian city one of cautious optimism - for the first time in many years, the steelworks is in the black'

Whyalla is a manufacturing town, a place of hi-vis vests, of old-school manufacturing grunt. A city where, from some angles, the steelworks dominate the skyline.

There's a new and spectacular circular jetty that everyone wants you to see, and big plans to develop the foreshore, which slopes to a glittering sea.