Nuclear Waste

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:54): My question is to the Premier. Will the Premier seek the endorsement of a special convention of the state branch of the Australian Labor Party for his referendum on a nuclear waste dump, or will he, as SA Union Secretary Joe Szakacs put it:

…keep asking a different group of people the same question until he gets an answer that he wants.

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier) (14:54): I think those people riding around in their cars in country areas listening to the radio on that fateful day when the Leader of the Opposition gave that interview would have been staggered about the processes that the Leader of the Opposition used to arrive at his decision. Let's talk a bit about perspectives. We don't want to talk out of school, do we? We don't want to talk out of school, but there are very many different—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL: Who are the quiet ones, Mr Speaker? All those people who woke up in the morning and saw The 'Tiser and wondered, 'Oh, we seem to have changed our position. I can't remember the party room meeting. I actually can't remember us discussing that.' So, don't lecture us about party processes when you box in your own caucus by embarrassing them into supporting you; and the only reason they are in this panic about supporting you is that they have no idea about where to turn to next.