Julie Bishop Quotes

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

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.

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.

Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.

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

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.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

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

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

 

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.