This report makes a number of recommendations which aim to alleviate the current pressures experienced by older Australians on low incomes, including a review of the Age Pension base level and indexation arrangements, a review of financial thresholds to access government services, benefits and concessions, the introduction of measures to improve access to dental care...

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered this speech in the House of Representatives on 13 February 2008.

This report covers the ability of the ADF to maintain air superiority in our region to 2020. It includes: capability planning in relation to the acquisition of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF); any capability gap which may arise from a delay in its purchase; a comparison of the JSF and the FA-22 Raptor; and an...

This report makes 48 recommendations with a particular focus on fraud, financial abuse, substitute decision making, and family agreements.

From the report's foreword: