Hundreds of workers will lose their jobs due to a decision to permanently shut down the blast furnace at South Australia’s Whyalla steelworks. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• Hundreds of workers will lose their jobs due to a decision to permanently shut down the blast furnace at South Australia’s Whyalla steelworks.S1S2

• Redundancies have been announced for workers at a major Australian steelworks, with a decision made to pull the plug on a blast furnace built in the 1960s.S3