House of Assembly Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2) 52 2 Parliament of South Australia House of Assembly published Question Time Employment Figures EMPLOYMENT FIGURES Mr MARSHALL House of Assembly Norwood Leader of the Opposition 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 House of Assembly Cheltenham Premier Minister for State Development Minister for the Public Sector Minister for the Arts EMPLOYMENT FIGURES 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.