Quotes from Jay Weatherill

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.

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.

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

Defence is our best attack.

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.

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

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.