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Every Australian child and young adult with high-risk neuroblastoma will continue to have free access at Australian hospitals to a promising medicine not otherwise available in Australia, known as DFMO, thanks to an agreement secured from the Albanese Government.

The Albanese Government is investing almost $18 million in a world-first Australian research project that will trial a drug discovered by Australian researchers that protects the heart during a heart attack.

The Australian Government is delivering better access to urgent health care for residents in Adelaide’s northeast with the opening of a new Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC) at the McIntyre Medical Centre.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference on Para Hills Medicare Urgent Care Clinic.

Read the interview between Minister Butler and Matthew Pantelis on the shingles vaccination.

From today, new vaping reforms come into force to protect Australian kids from the harms of vaping and nicotine dependence. 

The Australian Government is ensuring thousands of Australians, with or at risk of contracting HIV, are protected by securing the supply of tenofovir with emtricitabine, or PrEP, by temporarily approving the supply on an alternative overseas-registered brand.

The search for a multi-season flu vaccine, better treatment for schizophrenia, and how gut microorganisms may fight off melanoma, are 3 projects sharing in $50 million in health research funding from the Australian Government.

Read the transcript of the radio interview with Minister Butler and Jacqui Felgate on vape law changes

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Jacqui Felgate on vape law changes.

The Australian Government is expanding the highly successful “Deadly Choices” preventative health program to improve the health outcomes of First Nations Australians.

The Australian Government will invest $120 million to establish the Northern Heart Centre in Launceston, delivering better health care for northern Tasmanians with heart disease.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Scott Levi on AFL, Central Coast listening tour, Medicare bulk billing rebates, vaping crackdown and the Royal Commission into Aged Care.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler, Assistant Minister McBride and Member for Robertson Dr Gordon Reid's doorstop in Gosford, NSW on healthcare on the Central Coast, cheaper medicines, Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, aged care reform, dementia care, superannuation and other topics.

The Australian Government will increase the number of postgraduate psychology places at universities and provide more psychology internships and supervisors so Australians can access a psychologist when needed.

The Albanese Government has expanded eligibility for the free shingles vaccination program.

Read the transcript from Minister Butler's television interview with David Speers on IV fluids, shingles vaccine expansion, menopause Senate inquiry, abortion access, IVF access, vaping crackdown, GP shortages and youth mental health.

Read the transcript from Minister Butler's joint press conference with Member for Boothby Louise Miller-Frost on increased free access to shingles vaccine, beer excise, in game gambling ads and preventive health funding.

Internationally renowned Commonwealth Fund has ranked Australia’s health system as the top performing country in 2024.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Matthew Pantelis on aged care; bulk billing investments; taking pressure off hospitals; GP workforce; proton therapy.

South Australia’s strong enforcement has seen thousands of unlawful vapes taken off the shelves and out of the hands of young Australians.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with David Bevan on aged care reforms; taking pressure off hospitals; vaping enforcement.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference in Adelaide on vaping enforcement; taking pressure off hospitals; retirement villages; women's health; IV fluids; RSV vaccine and monoclonal antibodies.

The Australian Government has released the final report of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Review.

Australia continues to ramp up the fight against illicit vapes, with more than 5.2 million illicit vapes and vaping products seized so far this year. Of these, more than 2 million vapes have been seized since the commencement of the new vaping laws on 1 July 2024.