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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'System-Wide' Change: 10-Year Action Plan for better LGBTIQA+ health
The Australian Government has today released an Australian-first roadmap to improve the health and wellbeing of the LGBTIQA+ community.-
Radio interview with Minister Butler and Charlie McKillop, ABC Far North - 11 December 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Charlie McKillop on Cairns Medicare Urgent Care Clinic; tripling of the bulk billing incentive; GP Incentive Fund; Enhertu PBS listing; COUCH Cancer Wellness Centre. -
Minister for Health and Aged Care, speech - 11 December 2024
Read Minister Butler's speech at the ITEC Symposium 2024 -
Radio interview with Minister Butler on ABC Melbourne Drive - 11 December 2024
Read the transcript from Minister Butler's interview on ABC Melbourne Drive on Illicit Tobacco Symposium and vaping crackdown -
Hervey Bay Medicare Urgent Care Clinic now open
The Australian Government is delivering cheaper and more accessible healthcare for residents across the Fraser Coast with the opening of the Hervey Bay Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC). -
Minister for Health and Aged Care - press conference - 11 December 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference on additional funding for the regulation and enforcement of world-leading vaping laws; reproductive health; menopause inquiry; tobacco excise. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler and Murray Jones, 4CA Breakfast – 10 December 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Murray Jones on the Cairns Medicare Urgent Care Clinic, $1 billion 10-year Royal Flying Doctors Service agreement and private health insurers using 'phoenixing' practices. -
Australian Government ensures future of Royal Flying Doctor Service
The Australian Government has secured the future of Australia’s iconic Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) with a $74.8 million investment. -
Minister for Health and Aged Care, press conference – 10 December 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference with Senator Nita Green in Cairns on the $1 billion 10-year Royal Flying Doctors Service agreement, rural healthcare services, national flags, the anti-Semitic synagogue attack, drink spiking, fluoridation in water and more. -
Commonwealth Ombudsman Report into "loopholes" making private health insurance more expensive
Today the Commonwealth Ombudsman released a report into the “loophole” tactics that private health insurers have been using to charge millions of Australians more for private health cover.