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Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.


When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.


We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.


Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.


There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.


The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package.


I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way.


We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care.


The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.


It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.


Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.


My point is this, the Government made this decision to ban totally beef exports into Indonesia, even to compliant abattoirs and this will have enormous consequences for the beef cattle industry across Australia.


But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government's decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia.


We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.


The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.


At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.


And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.


Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.


The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.


Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.