Jay Weatherill
Jay Weatherill
Jay Wilson Weatherillis an Australian politician who is the 45th and current Premier of South Australia, serving since 21 October 2011. Weatherill has represented the House of Assembly seat of Cheltenham as a member of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party since the 2002 election...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPolitician
CountryAustralia
community focused government ideas less people respect treating wisdom wrong
My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.
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Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.
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If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.
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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.
We need to get back to the concept of taking the community with us.
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If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.
We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance.
I have learned to not worry about things I can't control.
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I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.