And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.
Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.
Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.
Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.
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.
Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.
We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.
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.
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.
The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.
The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.
At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.
Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.
Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.
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.
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.
Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.
Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.
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.
