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

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.