We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.