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Speaker 1: It is four minutes to ten o'clock. Some breaking news,

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Speaker 1: News Corpus sold Foxtel to a company called Dazzen das

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Speaker 1: z N. Never heard of them. Dazn three point four

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Speaker 1: billion dollars is the little ticker on Sky News this morning.

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Speaker 1: Foxtel's sold by News Corp three point four billion. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk more about Wayala And this all stems from a

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Speaker 1: report on seven News last night Mike Smithson with the

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Speaker 1: expers a. He joins me, Now, Mike.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Yeah, it's good morning, Matt.

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Speaker 1: Here future looks grim, you'd have to say.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's been looking grim for at least

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Speaker 2: six months, probably much longer than that. I remember doing

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Speaker 2: stories that when all that dissimilar in twenty nineteen, when

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Speaker 2: sange Koka wasn't paying his bills, then it would appear

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Speaker 2: that GfG still isn't. But I think that the it

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Speaker 2: feels like the walls are closing in on Wyala and

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Speaker 2: people up there are very sensitive about it, which are

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Speaker 2: entitled to be. But when you see the Olias lost

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Speaker 2: forty workers because it's just not the work for them

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Speaker 2: to do, and it's a similar pattern out at the

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Speaker 2: mines in the middle back ranges, and as Frank said,

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Speaker 2: Pangalo said a few minutes ago, it is a basketcase.

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Speaker 2: I don't see any way out. I spoke to the

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Speaker 2: Minister over the weekend. I've conclude Sintonus and I said

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Speaker 2: I don't see light at the end of the tunnel.

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Speaker 2: He didn't really want to buy into that, but I

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Speaker 2: think he's starting to think the same way. He's doing

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Speaker 2: a press conference in about two minutes time, so whether

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Speaker 2: he is going to have any more to say. But

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Speaker 2: I'm going down the same path as Frank Panglo is

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Speaker 2: that it would seem that administration, someone's got to step in,

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Speaker 2: the government has to do something. It can't just keep

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Speaker 2: doing nothing and hoping for the best, as much as

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Speaker 2: it would like to do that. So yes, grim time's ahead,

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Speaker 2: certainly with Christmas approaching.

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Speaker 1: No light at the end of the tunnel because the

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Speaker 1: blast furnas hasn't been on for what three months now more?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's September. But Matthew, the main problem

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Speaker 2: is that they've lost their critical massive works and infrastructure

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Speaker 2: support staff. Where you've got waste management. The ELIA doesn't

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Speaker 2: want anything to do with them anymore. It's millions of dollars.

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Speaker 2: Even if they got the blast furness working today, you

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Speaker 2: need all this support stuff. And they're all not only

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Speaker 2: leaving the job, they're leaving town. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's still so many jobs involved here and a

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Speaker 1: lot of people working there turning up not doing much

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Speaker 1: getting paid somehow. Where's that money coming from?

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Speaker 2: Well, presumably GfG has money from some source. But you

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Speaker 2: can't create a workforce overnight when you've already lost it,

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Speaker 2: you've lost all those skills. It just doesn't It doesn't

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Speaker 2: work that way, and it's they're living in a fool's

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Speaker 2: paradise if they think this can be resolved just by

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Speaker 2: going back to work switching the blast furnace on at

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Speaker 2: a moment's notice. And why it isn't switched on is

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Speaker 2: another question. Is it fixable? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, you'll be following this closely as it unfold.

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Speaker 1: Smith though, I know that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for your time, pleasure, Matthew, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Mike Smithson from seven News had the expos last night.

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Speaker 1: The future of the smelter at wayla Is still works

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Speaker 1: is not going not looking great into the future. Rex

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Speaker 1: Patrick has called in. He's had a look at all

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Speaker 1: of this as well, and has for quite some time. Rex,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, Matthew.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I was up in I was up in Waler

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Speaker 3: with Jackie Lamby a month or so ago, and look

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Speaker 3: at a sixty year old shipyard. Things are not going well.

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Speaker 3: The blast furnace has been offline for a considerable period

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Speaker 3: of time now. Tom Kotson Tonis three weeks ago said

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Speaker 3: that the blast furnace was going to get up and

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Speaker 3: running over the next week or so. Absolutely incorrect call.

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Speaker 3: The government strategy here is hope, and that's not good enough.

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Speaker 3: We need to have the federal government step in along

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Speaker 3: with the state government, put the steel works into administration

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Speaker 3: and then invest. Otherwise, Wiler is simply going to live

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Speaker 3: in purgatory and we'll end up with a situation where

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Speaker 3: the world will just simply march ahead and Wiler, the

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Speaker 3: whole township, will end up in a great deal of trouble.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, Rex, have to leave it there. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: your comments. Rex Patrick, who is a Senate candidate for

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Speaker 1: the Jackie Lambee Party, but has done a lot of

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Speaker 1: work over the years looking at Wyler and needs moving forward.