Ministers' media centre

The Australian Government will provide an unprecedented $25 million for dementia, ageing and aged care research.

A new national study has launched to give Australians a better understanding of how First Nations people view and experience cancer.

The Australian Government is providing $40.6 million to Triple P International to help them deliver free, online parenting education and mental health support to Australian parents and carers of children under 12.

Read the transcript of the television interview with Minister Butler and Sarah Ferguson on Medicare fraud.

Read the transcript of the radio interview with Minister Butler and Patricia Karvelas on Medicare fraud, aged care sector and the StewartBrown report, and reintroducing bulk billed psychiatric telehealth consultations for regional and rural Australia.

Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mark Butler has issued the following statement regarding Medicare reporting.

Read Assistant Minister McBride's speech to the Fourth Global Mental Health Summit on Friday 14 October 2022 (Check against delivery)

The Australian Government is delivering on our election commitment to restore bulk billed video telehealth psychiatry consultations, through a $47.7 million investment in the October 2022-23 Budget. Joint media release with Assistant Minister Emma McBride and Fiona Phillips, Member for Gilmore.

Mr David Tune AO PSM has been appointed as the independent reviewer to lead the capability review of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission.

The Australian Government is providing almost $700,000 to fund new research investigating the impact of endometriosis on women’s fertility.

The Australian Government has received advice regarding a national lung cancer screening program from the independent Medical Services Advisory Committee.

Read the transcript of the television interview with Minister Butler and Matthew Doran on National Health and Medical Research (NHMRC) Investigator Grants; gender equality in medical research; COVID-19; vaccine uptake.

Read the transcript of Minister Wells' speech at the Aged and Community Care Providers Association Conference.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's and Senator Gallagher's press conference on the National Health and Medical Research investigator grants; gender equality in medical research; gender biases in the healthcare system.

From 2023, the National Health and Medical Research Council will set targets to award equal numbers of Investigator Grants to women and men in a new commitment to address gender inequities in research funding. Joint media release with Minister for Women, Senator Katy Gallagher.

The Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, the Hon. Emma McBride MP will be travelling to Italy this week for the fourth World Health Organization (WHO) Global Mental Health Summit.

The Albanese Government is investing almost $7 million in Australia first stem cell research that will enable live stem cells to be 3D printed in order to treat damaged body parts.

Read the transcript of the radio interview with Minister Butler, David Bevan and Stacy Lee on general practice; South Australian women's and children's hospitals and COVID-19.

Read the transcript of the television interview with Minister Butler, Michael Rowland and Lisa Miller on general practice; the Australian Medical Students' Association roundtable; removing red tape.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's doorstop on general practice and reducing red tape.

Read the transcript of the radio interview with Minister Butler and Jim Wilson on Health workforce; overseas doctors; reducing red tape and the Moderna bivalent vaccine.

Today is World Mental Health Day – a day for global mental health education, awareness, and advocacy.

Australia’s first comprehensive cancer website developed by and for Indigenous Australians has officially launched today in a bid to boost health outcomes and care across the country.

The Australian Government will invest more than $5.4 million in three ground-breaking brain cancer research projects.

Read the transcript of Minister Wells' ABC interview on safety in sport, Brisbane 2032 Olympics, COVID-19 mandatory isolation in aged care, ADF support in aged care