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

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

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.

Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent.

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.

Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.