Ministers' media centre

Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) will have certainty to plan for the future, thanks to four-year rolling funding agreements from July 1, 2024, announced by the Albanese Labor Government.

Read the transcript from Minister Butler's press conference on funding for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, chiropractors manipulating infant spines, Government’s neglect of the healthcare system, hospital funding negotiations.

Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Emma McBride visited the Liverpool Medicare Mental Health Centre.

Australians with non-small cell lung cancer and the chronic skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa, now have access to expanded treatment options under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

Since the doors opened to headspace Wagga Wagga in 2008 and Griffith in 2016, they’ve offered vital support to young people across the Riverina.

The Australian government has made another major commitment to women's sport and the Matildas, contributing to the shared cost of hosting the AFC Women's Asian Cup on home soil in 2026.

Read the transcript from Assistant Minister McBride's press conference which covered the Medicare Mental Health Centres in Wagga Wagga and Young.

The Riverina will soon have access to free, walk-in mental health support with Medicare Mental Health Centres opening in Wagga Wagga and Young later this year.

Read the transcript from Minister Butler's press conference which covered the Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in the Newcastle-Lake Macquarie region.

The Australian Government is delivering on its promise to strengthen Medicare for the Hunter with a new Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC) to be established to service Lake Macquarie and Newcastle.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Craig Reucassel on new vaping and smoking public health campaigns; quit supports.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Richard King on an additional Medicare Urgent Care Clinic for the Newcastle-Lake Macquarie area; new smoking and vaping campaigns; quit supports; drinking water guidelines; immunisation.

Read the radio interview with Minister Butler, Dan Cox and Jenny Marchant on Medicare Urgent Care Clinic for the Newcastle-Lake Macquarie area.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister McBride's interview with Sally Bryant on new Medicare Mental Health Centres in Wagga Wagga and Young; headspace services.

The Australian Government is funding research to better equip Australia’s primary health care system to support patients, especially those with chronic and ongoing health conditions.

While in Geneva to advance Australia’s interests at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Assembly, the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mark Butler, has announced Australia will invest $5 million over the next four years to help prevent rheumatic heart disease across the Pacific.

To help address period poverty and reduce cost-of-living pressure, the Australian Government will provide free pads and tampons to women and girls living in remote First Nations communities.

The Australian Government is investing nearly $14.5 million into research to improve our understanding of the impacts of Long COVID on individuals, the community and the Australian health system.

The Australian Government is providing support for Australians to quit vaping and smoking, with new Government advertising campaigns and updated quit support services.

Read the transcript from Minister Butler's interview which covered the new vaping and smoking campaigns.

Read the transcript from Minister Butler's press conference which covered the vaping and smoking campaigns, and avian flu.

The Australian Government is stepping up the fight to find a cure for motor neurone disease (MND) with a multi-million-dollar investment. We are investing $2 million in 2024-25 to support innovative, safe, rigorous and high quality MND research projects.

The Australian Government is helping our record breaking Diamonds strive for 2027 Netball World Cup glory with a $6 million investment.

Newly released data shows the GP bulk billing rate continues to improve each month, since the Australian Government tripled the bulk billing incentive on 1 November.

Read the transcript for Minister Butler's interview with Sarah Abo on NDIS fraud and bulk billing being on the rise.