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.

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

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

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

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

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.