Jay Weatherill Quotes

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

  Jay Weatherill

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

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• 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.

  Jay Weatherill

• Well, there are different levels of love.

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• 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.

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

  Jay Weatherill

• We need to get back to the concept of taking the community with us.

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• 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.

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

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

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• South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that’s real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• 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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Jay Weatherill (39)

Birth:	1964
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Jay Wilson Weatherill was born in Adelaide, Australia. He is an Australian politician who is the 45th and current Premier of South Australia, serving since 21 October 2011. He 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. He studied at the University of Adelaide, graduating with degrees in law and economics. In the early 1990s, he worked at the law firm Duncan Hannon with Patrick Conlon and Isobel Redmond. With fellow Adelaide lawyer Stephen Lieschke, he established industrial law firm Lieschke & Weatherill in 1995. He is married to Melissa. They have two young daughters.

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