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

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.

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 we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.

Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.

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

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