Ministers' media centre

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

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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 of Minister Butler's press conference in Canberra on bulk billing being on the rise, GP shortages, ADF recruitment and NDIS fraud.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Patricia Karvelas on bulk billing being on the rise and NDIS fraud.

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

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's doorstop on the 8th Community Pharmacy Agreement; cheaper medicines.

The Australian Government and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia have signed the 8th Community Pharmacy Agreement (8CPA).

A new Medicare Mental Health Centre is now open in Shellharbour, providing free access to quality mental health care and support for people living in the region.

Young people in Shellharbour in need of mental health care and support are now able to access services at headspace Shellharbour, which is now open.