Jay Weatherill Quotes

We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time.

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

Everybody has to make their own decisions about how they choose to behave.

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

I've decided to lead in a way that takes people with me. It's the approach that I think will stand not only our party but also our state in good stead.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.

By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands.

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

Well, there are different levels of love.

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.

Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry.

A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.