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October 22nd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
AAP
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill says he is listening to people’s concerns and will reconcile economic, social and environmental concerns to advance the state.
Mr Weatherill on Saturday paused to listen to protesters, who want proposed funding cuts to community centres stopped, as he entered the state Labor conference to outline his vision for the state.
“As a government we are being asked to listen more closely to the concerns of working South Australians to hear their voices. And take decisive action on their behalf,” Mr Weatherill told the conference.
Mr Weatherill told delegates he had also listened to complaints that proposed fees for hospital parking would cause hardship.
“It was a mistake,” he said.
“I am sorry for the distress it has caused – we have changed it because its hurting the people we should be helping.
“All visitors will be able to park free of charge for two hours in all of our new hospital car parks.”
He used his first full day as premier to remind party members of Labor’s values of “humanity as against material gain”.
The new premier said there was an entrenched, but fundamentally wrong, belief that SA’s prosperity, social capital and environmental integrity were mutually exclusive.
“These interests can and must be reconciled if we are to progress as a state,” Mr Weatherill said.
“We want South Australia to be highly attractive to those who want to live in an open and inclusive society where new ideas are welcomed and where the destructive forces that trade off our environment, our community, or our prosperity must be rejected.”
The former education minister said children’s development cannot be compartmentalised, which is why SA has brought together the learning, health and welfare elements into one child development component of the Education Department.”
“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.”
Housing is another priority, with a new portfolio that has a clear mandate to increase the supply of homes for young families and to put housing industry workers back to work.
Mr Weatherill said there were two crucial issues for the state – water and the resources boom.
“The upstream states would prefer that we play a passive role in the future of our most important asset (the River Murray). This will not happen.”
He also said the state was committed to making sure tangible benefits would flow to the state from the global resources boom.
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