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Cartoons of 2000

The year 2000 was a big one for Whyalla and Australia. There was the Sydney Olympics, the introduction of the GST, and locally the crashing of an aircraft en route from Adelaide to Whyalla with eight people on board. By now Bev Story was the editor of the Whyalla News.

The slogan was: WHYALLA, WHERE THE OUTBACK MEETS THE SEA, which was fine but apparently other places had similar slogans.

Apparently in New York there is a restaurant run by a couple of ex-Whyalla people called THE EIGHT MILE CREEK RESTAURANT.

2000 was also the year when BHP, the city’s main employer changed its name locally to OneSteel.

Work also began to demolish most of the old Whyalla Institute to make way for the new Harvey Norman building.

When the construction began and the huge concrete sections were erected at the top of Forsyth Street, the Harvey Norman building looked nothing less than a solid wall.

And that was the old CDMA network. Telstra has since moved to the new NextG network now and it still has black spots.

In 2000, the mayoral race was between John Smith and Keith Wilson. It was an odd contest in many ways.

After John Smith had won the mayoral race, there was a bit of a controversy about the mileage he was clocking up on council business, but then I guess a mayor needs to be a traveling salesman at times.

The 2000 Olympics.

What is the price of petrol today? Ah, the good old days.

Another piece of future gazing, although it didn’t quite take Whyalla ten years to boom.

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