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The Albanese Labor Government’s 2025–26 Budget is a future-shaping Budget, including history-making investments to build Australia’s future.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview on 4BC with Peter Fegan about the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), cheaper medicines and the election.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview on ABC Radio Darwin with Adam Steer which covered cheaper medicines and adding dental to Medicare.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview on ABC News Breakfast with Bridget Brennan which covered cheaper medicines and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Hamish MacDonald on ABC Radio Sydney which covered cheaper medicines, and adding dental to Medicare.

Read the transcript from Minister Butler's interview with Peter Stefanovic on Sky News which covered cheaper medicines and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

The Australian Government is making cheaper medicines even cheaper – with a script to cost Australians no more than $25 under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Simon Beaumont on 50 additional Medicare Urgent Care Clinics.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview on the new Medical Costs Finder

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's transcript on Medical Costs Finder; Medicare Urgent Care Clinics.

A re-elected Albanese Labor Government will help Australians find the best value when they need specialist medical advice and treatment, by fixing the former government’s failed price disclosure tool, Medical Costs Finder.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Weekend Sunrise which covered cheaper medicines for women's health

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Weekend Today which covered cheaper medicines for women's health

The Government is delivering even more choice for Australian women with new and amended listings for contraception, endometriosis and IVF on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference about cheaper medicines for women's health

Residents of Sydney’s west will soon have expanded access to free, walk-in mental health care at the Canterbury Medicare Mental Health Centre.

We’re cracking down on illicit tobacco and we’re putting the people profiting from black market tobacco on notice.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Tom Elliott on illicit tobacco

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with James Glenday on ABC News Breakfast which covered tobacco, Ukraine and trade.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference about cracking down on illicit tobacco; US trade tariffs and the clinical trials one-stop shop.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Raf Epstein on ABC Melbourne which covered tobacco and trade.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister McBride's interview with Paddy Gerrard and Maz Compton on mental health.