The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

Weatherill said "Maybe if the honourable member could perhaps hang around for the answer and pay some respect to the house rather than scurrying off like a cockroach into the corner" and then later apologised. On 21 January 2013 Weatherill assumed the additional portfolios of treasury arts and public sector management following a cabinet reshuffle triggered by the resignation of two members of his ministry. Weatherill lost along factional lines.

He has represented the electoral district of Cheltenham in the South Australian House of Assembly as a member of the Australian Labor Party since the 2002 election. Jay Wilson Weatherill (born 1964) is an Australian politician and the current Premier of South Australia.