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

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.

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

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 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.

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