Minister Butler's media

Read the transcript from Minister Butler's press conference on the Vaping Bill and pill testing.

Read Minister Butler's opinion piece on vaping reforms which was published in the Australian on 25 June 2024.

The Albanese Government is investing $16 million to support 11 innovative healthcare projects in rural and remote Australia that aim to provide a range of innovative models of care.

Record numbers of doctors, nurses, midwives and other health professionals are moving to Australia and working in the health system, since the election of the Albanese Government.

Read the transcript from Minister Butler's press conference on tax cuts for every taxpayer and $300 off energy bills for every household; the Opposition's nuclear power plan; record numbers of overseas trained health professionals; mental health investment.

The Albanese Government is investing almost $30 million in research into new ways to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve access to health services and ensure our health system remains world class.

Anita Hobson-Powell has been appointed the new Chief Allied Health Officer for the Department of Health and Aged Care.

South Australians living in the northern suburbs now have access to free, walk-in mental health support with a new Medicare Mental Health Centre in Elizabeth opening officially today.

The Australian Government has heard the calls for better support for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), long COVID and related conditions, with funding to develop new Australian clinical guidelines.

Read the transcript from Minister Butler and Assistant Minister McBride about a new Medicare Mental Health Centre opening in northern Adelaide, Medicare Urgent Care Clinics and pressure on hospitals.

Read Minister Butler's opinion piece first published in The Winchelsea Star on 19 June 2024.

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).

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.

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.