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The Sunshine Coast will have free access to quality mental health services with a new Medicare Mental Health Centre being established locally.

The Darling Downs and Southern Queensland will soon have access to free, quality mental health care and support with a new Medicare Mental Health Centre to be established in Warwick.

Residents in Muswellbrook, Scone and Singleton can now access free mental health care from the new Muswellbrook Medicare Mental Health Centre.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister McBride's radio interview with Amelia Bernasconi on the opening of the Medicare Mental Health Centre in Muswellbrook.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Heidi Murphy on vaping law enforcements; medicine shortages.

Associate Professor Antonio Di Dio has been appointed as Director of the Professional Services Review (PSR) to ensure integrity is maintained across the Medicare program.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Matthew Doran on vapes; access to DFMO.

Every Australian child and young adult with high-risk neuroblastoma will have free access at Australian hospitals to a promising medicine not otherwise available in Australia, known as DFMO, thanks to funding from the Australian Government.

Read the transcript from Minister Butler's joint press conference with the New South Wales Minister for Health and Regional Health, the Hon Ryan Park MP, which covered vaping and free access to a life changing drug to treat childhood neuroblastoma.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Melinda James on his visit to Shoalhaven, the success of Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, and aged care beds.

The Australian Government is delivering for people in south and south-west Sydney with two Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (Medicare UCC) to open in Carlton and Bankstown. 

The Australian Government is strengthening Medicare to deliver a better, fairer and stronger health system and responsible cost of living relief.

The Australian Government has today released its first Aged Care Data and Digital Strategy.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Angel Parsons on vaping.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister McBride's doorstop on two new peak bodies for people with lived experience of mental and ill-health.

Newly released data shows there has been over two million additional bulk billed visits since the Australian Government tripled the bulk billing incentive, with close to a million additional free visits in May.

The Australian Government is establishing two new independent peak bodies to represent people with lived experience of mental ill-health.

The Australian Government’s comprehensive health reform agenda is enabling Australia to meet key health challenges highlighted in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s (AIHW) Australia’s Health 2024 report.

The Australian Government is delivering for residents in southwest Brisbane with two Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (Medicare UCC) to open in Inala and Redbank.

The Albanese Government has established the role of an Illicit Tobacco and E cigarette Commissioner to further ramp up the fight against black market nicotine products.

The Australian Government has delivered the largest ever investment in Olympic and Paralympic sports to help our brilliant athletes achieve glory on world stages.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference on new world leading vaping laws; Illicit Tobacco and E-Cigarette Commissioner appointment; TGA regulation of vapes; drugs and alcohol in detention; aged care funding negotiations.

Australians with early breast cancer, leukaemia, and types of lupus, and insomnia, will now have access to new and expanded treatment options under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

The Australian Government is investing $20 million to commercialise digital health research, taking it from the lab and putting it in the hands of patients and their health team, like using artificial intelligence to unlock the secrets of neurological disorders like multiple sclerosis and dementia.

The Australian Government’s world leading vaping reforms will become a reality from this Monday 1 July, after the unanimous backing of the Senate and the passage of the Bill through Parliament.