Can “the fixer” repair a broken Whyalla?

Monday 22 February 2016

We all know that Minister Chris Pyne is the “fixer” because he told us so. But he’s up against it in his home electorate as Arrium (ARI) mulls shuttering the Whyalla smelter and his own party’s ideological predilections against bailouts run up against the political reality that 1,200 lost jobs will cost him his own.

So, what’s a fixer to do?

Let’s take a look at ARI’s accounts:

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.