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 and Aged Care.
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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Action to combat the trade of illicit tobacco
We’re cracking down on illicit tobacco and we’re putting the people profiting from black market tobacco on notice.-
Minister for Health and Aged Care, press conference – 12 March 2025
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference about cracking down on illicit tobacco; US trade tariffs and the clinical trials one-stop shop. -
Television interview with Minister Butler, ABC News Breakfast – 12 March 2025
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with James Glenday on ABC News Breakfast which covered tobacco, Ukraine and trade. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler, ABC Melbourne – 12 March 2025
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Raf Epstein on ABC Melbourne which covered tobacco and trade. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler, 3AW – 12 March 2025
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Tom Elliott on illicit tobacco -
Minister for Health and Aged Care, press conference – 11 March 2025
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's joint press conference with the Member for Corangamite, Libby Coker MP, on a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic for Torquay, more Medicare Urgent Care Clinics and the Torquay Community Hospital. -
Strengthening Medicare: more doctors and larger Medicare payments for dozens of communities
Australians and their GPs in dozens of communities around Australia will soon get more support from Medicare, with larger bulk billing incentives or a wider pool of doctors to recruit from, thanks to an update to classification systems. -
Securing the future of precision medicine for a cancer-free future
The Australian Government is investing $143.4 million to extend two world-leading precision medicine programs for children and adults with cancer, so that more Australians can benefit from the latest in scientific and clinical understanding. -
Minister for Health and Aged Care, press conference – 5 March 2025
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference on the manufacturing of onshore IV fluids. -
Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in Clifton Hill
Media release announcing outlining the commitment to open a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in Clifton Hill