JULIE BISHOP

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.

The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.

My point is this, the Government made this decision to ban totally beef exports into Indonesia, even to compliant abattoirs and this will have enormous consequences for the beef cattle industry across Australia.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.

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