"I cannot understand the "couldn't care less about Whyalla people" attitude by some councillors and business or community leaders who support trashing the Point Lowly visual, recreational and sustainable development future in exchange for a third rate, relatively shallow port and it's industrial surround"

Read the brilliant letter by Allan Nield here and the comments by Whyalla residents on this article.

The position of the Whyalla Council is that they have NO POSITION. How they can have "no position' on Whyalla's only decent tourist area, the area they delight in showing off on their web site, tourist brochures and advertising is bewildering.

Now we here talk in the highest areas of the Whyalla Council that the proposed industrialisation of Point Lowly is going ahead what ever the people of Whyalla want because "it is not our land" and that we should jump on the gravy train a grab a share of the revenue as "compensation" for losing our tourist area. Read more.