We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care.

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.

There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.

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

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government's decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia.

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