Biography
Mark Butler has been the Labor Member for Port Adelaide and Hindmarsh in the Federal Parliament since 2007 and is the Minister for Health, Disability and Ageing.
Mark served as Minister for Ageing and Australia’s first Minister for Mental Health in the Gillard Government. He has also held the ministries of Housing, Homelessness, Social Inclusion, Climate Change, Water and the Environment.
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Life changing medicine for children with cystic fibrosis
Australian children with cystic fibrosis now have access to cheaper medicines earlier under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) thanks to the Australian Government.-
Using mRNA technology to prevent cancer and treat disease
The Albanese Government is awarding more than $19 million to six research projects that use mRNA – the medical technology that underpins the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines – to find vaccines to prevent cancer and urinary tract infections. -
Medicare Urgent Care Clinic opens in Queanbeyan
The Australian Government is delivering on its commitment to people living in Greater Queanbeyan, with the Queanbeyan Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC) opening today, 24 July 2024. -
Delivering a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic for Hervey Bay
Hervey Bay residents will be able to access fully bulk billed care with a new Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC). -
New Dapto Medicare Urgent Care Clinic for the Illawarra
Illawarra residents will now have access to fully bulk billed urgent care from highly trained doctors and nurses, at the Dapto Medicare Urgent Care Clinic. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler and Heidi Murphy, 3AW Drive – 12 July 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Heidi Murphy on vaping law enforcements; medicine shortages. -
Television interview with Minister Butler and Matthew Doran, ABC Afternoon Briefing – 11 July 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Matthew Doran on vapes; access to DFMO. -
New director of Professional Services Review
Associate Professor Antonio Di Dio has been appointed as Director of the Professional Services Review (PSR) to ensure integrity is maintained across the Medicare program. -
Minister for Health and Aged Care – press conference – 10 July 2024
Read the transcript from Minister Butler's joint press conference with the New South Wales Minister for Health and Regional Health, the Hon Ryan Park MP, which covered vaping and free access to a life changing drug to treat childhood neuroblastoma. -
Hope for children with neuroblastoma as Government provides free access to DFMO
Every Australian child and young adult with high-risk neuroblastoma will have free access at Australian hospitals to a promising medicine not otherwise available in Australia, known as DFMO, thanks to funding from the Australian Government.