Quotes from Julie Bishop

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.

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.

Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.

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.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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