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.

Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry.

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 have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

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 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.