Jay Weatherill

So, um, she's from the right faction and Blair is from the left, and it's usually the right that wins leadership positions.

But at the end of the day, it's the best person for the job, as Jay Weatherill, uh, discovered when he was with Labor.

He was from the left and was, um, backed by the right to, to take over from Mike Rann.

So less attack dog work for Tom Koutsantonis?

When Peter Beattie handed over to Anna Bligh, she had 18 months.

When Mike Rann handed over to Jay Weatherill, he had 29 months.

They're, they're all successful examples.

So basically-

The government followed through with this and citizens' juries were used to make decisions about where major roads should go, for example.

Yeah, and this has happened in South Australia too, under Premier Jay Weatherill, using deliberative democratic methods, but apparently not going quite so far as Western Australia, with the delegation of decisions to those

juries.

Yeah, that's right.

I was with David Hardacre, who had more of a sense of how to build a political coalition.

I remember I walked into the South Australian Parliament House and uniquely at that point, both the Premier, a man called Jay Weatherill, and the leader of the opposition did support the legislation.

And again, because of my profile, I was able to speak with both these men.

And to give the leader of the opposition, the liberal Stephen Marshall, he came and had breakfast – I basically went and lived in Adelaide.

So with battery-powered radios and so on, keep them going because this will be a source of information, obviously.

Premier of South Australia, Jay Weatherill.

Emergency services and hospitals currently operating under their own generation and people should be aware that this is an extended outage.

Everyone at 5AA has been doing a fantastic job in the last 48 hours, as you always do.

And for those tuning in to radio, Radio Stool is the medium of choice for when it comes to an emergency disaster like this.

So with battery-powered radios and so on, keep them going because this will be a source of information, obviously.

Premier of South Australia, Jay Weatherill.

Emergency services and hospitals currently operating under their own generation and people should be aware that this is an extended outage.

And, and you've tracked it back over the last 25 or so years.

Um, I, I've had the long, uh, belief in, in South Australia that because we've had essentially a Labor state government here for so long, bar this blip of, uh, four years of, uh, the Marshall Government a few, now two terms ago, um, y- you'd say everything that is both good and bad about our state you can sheet home to Mike Rann, Jay Weatherill, and Peter Malinauskas primarily.

Well, that's fair to a reasonable degree.

The, um, of course, because of the elapsection of time.