Minister Butler's media

The Australian Government is delivering for residents in Sydney’s south-west with two Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (Medicare UCC), opening in Fairfield and Liverpool.

Professor Jenny May AM has been appointed Australia’s National Rural Health Commissioner.

Read the transcript from Minister Butler and Minister Bowen's press conference about Medicare Urgent Care Clinics for Fairfield and Liverpool.

A new biotech company launched today will use a world-leading technology to target cancers that are difficult to treat with existing medicines.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's doorstop in Melbourne on chiropractors reinstating the ban on the spinal manipulation on infants under two.

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.

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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).