Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.