{"id":32208,"date":"2016-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/whyalla-s-deputy-mayor-tom-antonio-is-fired-up-over-arrium-2\/"},"modified":"2016-04-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T00:00:00","slug":"whyalla-s-deputy-mayor-tom-antonio-is-fired-up-over-arrium-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/whyalla-s-deputy-mayor-tom-antonio-is-fired-up-over-arrium-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Whyalla&#8217;s deputy mayor is fired up over Arrium"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Whyalla deputy mayor Tom Antonio has lashed out in the wake of Arrium\u2019s voluntary administration, saying the Arrium board provided \u201cfalse security\u201d and betrayed the town.<\/h3>\n<p>But Mr Antonio saved his biggest swing for the South Australian state government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s alright now to say we\u2019ve got a procurement policy in place,\u201d he told Alan Hickey on FIVEAA, \u201cbut I ask you this, where were they with the Adelaide hospital, where were they when they built the Whyalla hospital, (worth) $80-million?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for myself raising the fact they were going to use Spanish steel to build the O-bahn, and bringing it to attention, still today we would be using Spanish steel to build the O-bahn,\u201d Mr Antonio said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut now miraculously they\u2019ve changed the specifications to use Arrium steel out of Whyalla steelworks to do the O-bahn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell me: why they didn\u2019t do that in the past? That\u2019s what they should\u2019ve been doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO TOM ANTONIO HERE;<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/258543226&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re using our taxpayers money to buy overseas steel to put ourselves out of jobs. How ludicrous is that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/australia-fails-to-plan-for-the-transition-to-renewables\">AUSSIES HAVE THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND, SAYS SENATOR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/port-adelaide-giant-charlie-dixon-finds-his-feet\">PORT ADELAIDE GIANT FINDS HIS FEET<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whyalla deputy mayor Tom Antonio has lashed out in the wake of Arrium\u2019s voluntary administration, saying the Arrium board provided \u201cfalse security\u201d and betrayed the town. But Mr Antonio saved his biggest swing for the South Australian state government. \u201cIt\u2019s alright now to say we\u2019ve got a procurement policy in place,\u201d he told Alan Hickey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-32208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Whyalla&#039;s deputy mayor is fired up over Arrium - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/whyalla-s-deputy-mayor-tom-antonio-is-fired-up-over-arrium-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whyalla&#039;s deputy mayor is fired up over Arrium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Whyalla deputy mayor Tom Antonio has lashed out in the wake of Arrium\u2019s voluntary administration, saying the Arrium board provided \u201cfalse security\u201d and betrayed the town. 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