Whyalla wipeout looms but carbon tax not to blame

Finally, sadly, pathetically.After all the shameful point-scoring and reckless scare-mongering, politicians, business leaders, unions, and workers are as one. And what's uniting them is a horrible, probably undeniable truth. Whyalla faces ruin with its economy teetering on the edge of an abyss, courtesy of the impending failure of the major employer Arrium Steel. It's got nothing whatsoever to do with the carbon tax, and yet Wayne Hanson's notorious words, gleefully parrotted by a rampaging Tony Abbott five years ago, are coming true.