Jay Weatherill

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

“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.”

“Well, there are different levels of love.”

“I think we all share a view about wanting to make sure we have a healthy river and we're looking forward to the plan and in the lead-up to that we've agreed to speak again.”

“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.”

“People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.”

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

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

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

“Our commitment to defence goes beyond this. It's a long-term commitment to make SA the home for Australian defence. It's a commitment to providing the right infrastructure and the right people.”

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

“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 think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.”

“Defence is our best attack.”

“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.”