EMPLOYMENT FIGURES

Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (15:09): My question is to the Premier. Why does South Australia have both 11 per cent more people unemployed under his premiership and three separate credit downgradings since he announced that he was choosing jobs over the AAA credit rating?

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier, Treasurer, Minister for State Development, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for the Arts) (15:09): I think the honourable member might have answered his own question, actually. We did make a choice; we made a public policy choice to sustain investment in jobs. If we had not done that, obviously the employment situation would be correspondingly worse.