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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.
Jay Weatherill
Speak
Looking
Healthy
Think
About
River
Share
Looking Forward
Make
Sure
Wanting
Again
Plan
View
Forward
Agreed
I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.
Jay Weatherill
Government
Confidence
People
Open
Maintain
Make
Sure
South
Australian
Accountable
Want
Public
Levels
Presenting
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.
Jay Weatherill
Woman
Grace
Strong
Will
Young
Cabinet
She
Sort
Passionate
Role
Person
Precisely
Senior
Want
Young Woman
Assertive
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.
Jay Weatherill
Home
Commitment
People
Defence
Right People
Our
Long-Term
Beyond
Make
Providing
Australian
Goes
Infrastructure
Right
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.
Jay Weatherill
Freedom
You
People
Able
Open
Like
Hours
Trading
Shop
Owner
Want
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.
Jay Weatherill
Future
Health
Age
Prosperity
Important
Single
Believe
State
Our
Citizens
Investing
Development
Most
Important Contribution
Make
Wellbeing
Contribution
Children
Capacity
Earliest
The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.
Jay Weatherill
Water
Resources
Boom
Locally
Defining
Crisis
Both
Global
Felt
Issues
Century
Universal
Two
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.
Jay Weatherill
Future
Confidence
Past
Think
Changes
State
Our
Project
Range
Ourselves
Has-Been
Over
Like
Economy
Genuinely
Real
Been
Years
South
Up
Australia
Quiet
Behaving
Which
Transformed
Start
Set
Everybody has to make their own decisions about how they choose to behave.
Jay Weatherill
Own
Everybody
About
Make
How
Behave
Decisions
Choose
All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.
Jay Weatherill
Government
Colleagues
Remain
Had
Until
Altered
Discuss
Role
Get
Decisions
Them
Chance
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.
Jay Weatherill
Work
Good
Strength
Build
Find
Solve
Simply
Leaders
Make
Sure
Got
Issues
Canberra
Going
Lands
Communities
Large
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.
Jay Weatherill
Better
Savings
Resources
Say
Spent
Those
Out
Would
Look
Well
Make
Advocacy
Trying
Just
Information
Them
I tried almost every genre. I decided at 14 I wanted to be a writer. I think I had to wait until they invented word processors to get serious about it, but I really tried every genre, and fantasy was the one that gave me the scope to do the most... you could play with worlds more.
Jennifer Fallon
Me
You
Wait
Word
Every
Think
Worlds
Gave
Tried
About
Invented
More
Could
Writer
Had
Almost
Most
Until
Genre
Scope
Get
Wanted
Decided
Fantasy
Really
Serious
Play
I'm blessed with three children who actually aren't terribly impressed with pandering to my ego, and one of my children has a bit of a problem with the sex scenes because when she reads the stuff, she hears my voice in her head, and apparently reading a sex scene written by your mother with her describing it is rather off-putting!
Jennifer Fallon
Ego
Problem
Mother
Sex
Three
Blessed
Reading
Pandering
Bit
Rather
Scene
Voice
Scenes
Written
Head
Stuff
She
Terribly
Because
Reads
Hears
Impressed
Children
Your
Who
Apparently
Describing
Her
Actually
Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing.
Jeremy Heimans
Positive
Technology
Change
People
Communicate
World
Trend
Live
Enormous
Lasting
Positive Change
Way
See
Eat
Potential
Through
Perhaps
Most
Learn
How
How Much
Doing
Encouraging
Revolutionized
Agency
Create
Much
Realizing
Works
Socialize
Actually
I am the CEO and co-founder of Purpose - a social movement incubator and agency. We work on ways to help millions of people combine their power as citizens, consumers and cultural agents.
Jeremy Heimans
Work
People
Power
Incubator
Ways
Citizens
Purpose
Consumers
Combine
Am
Cultural
Movement
Social
Agency
CEO
Agents
Help
Millions
Millions Of People
One example of 21st century activism we are engaging in is All Out, a first-of-its-kind global movement to advance the interests and rights of LGBT people. All Out is bringing together people of all identities to build a world in which everyone can live freely and be embraced for who they are.
Jeremy Heimans
Together
Rights
People
World
Example
Build
Live
Everyone
Out
Embraced
All-Out
Advance
Freely
Global
Identities
Movement
Which
Century
Interests
Engaging
Who
Activism
Bringing
From the age of 8, I was running media campaigns on global issues back home in Australia. I was ever so slightly precocious. I would meet with senior Australian government officials, including the prime minister and foreign minister, proposing various solutions to third-world debt and malnutrition.
Jeremy Heimans
Government
Home
Age
Meet
Back
Slightly
Minister
Would
Running
Solutions
Various
Proposing
Prime
Prime Minister
Global
Foreign
Issues
Government Officials
Australia
Campaigns
Debt
Australian
Malnutrition
Officials
Precocious
Senior
Including
Media
Ever
Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.
Jeremy Heimans
War
Internet
First
Before
Creation
Final
Meeting
Sides
Fax
Having
More
Purpose
Inspired
Had
Hotel
Baker
Were
Iraq
Campaign
Iraq War
Up
Get
Where
James
Which
Against
Much
Organized
Two
Recently
You must engage at the level of people's higher order values, and in doing so, you can engage them in a meaningful way on a large number of issues.
Jeremy Heimans
You
People
Values
Way
Must
Higher
Doing
Issues
Order
Them
Meaningful
Meaningful Way
Engage
Large
Large Number
Level
Number
In terms of people who we call heroes - and I don't tend to like that term, and firefighters don't consider themselves heroes - but if you look at their job description, they are. Their job is to straight up save people.
Jesse Spencer
You
People
Heroes
Job
Consider
Job Description
Tend
Firefighters
Term
Like
Look
Terms
Call
Up
Straight
Themselves
Who
Description
Save
Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated, and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.
Jesse Spencer
Me
Bit
Hated
Could
Put
Sing
She
Sort
Just
Decided
Which
Choir
Rebellious
Mum
Nightmare
I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I'm sorry, but it's been done, and it does work and it's good and all that, but I think something else would be nice.
Jesse Spencer
Work
Love
Music
Good
Change
Writing
Be Nice
Sorry
Nice
Think
Else
Would
Would-Be
Find
About
Something
Something Else
Guys
Does
Always
Been
Done
All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.
Jesse Spencer
Me
Else
Find
Girlfriends
Something
Something Else
Outside
Industry
Been
Maybe
Realized
Actor
When I was doing 'Neighbours,' I was aiming to go to university, then go to med school, but I realised I could make a better living from acting.
Jesse Spencer
Better
School
Living
Aiming
Neighbours
Could
Make
Doing
Go
Realised
Then
Acting
University
I want 'Chicago Fire' to go as long as 'SVU.'
Jesse Spencer
Long
Fire
Go
Chicago
Want
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