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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Television interview with Minister Butler and David Koch, Sunrise – 16 August 2022
Read the transcript of the television interview with Minister Butler on Medicare and strengthening the Medicare fund, pressures on our health system and urgent care clinics.-
Radio interview with Minister Butler and David Lipson, ABC Radio – 15 August 2022
Read the transcript of the ABC Radio interview with Minister Butler on Scott Morrison’s self-appointed ministerial roles, cost of GP visits, and Australian mRNA vaccine manufacturing.
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Television interview with Minister Butler and Lachlan Kennedy, Ten News First – 16 August 2022
Read the transcript of the Ten News First interview with Minister Butler on Scott Morrison’s secret appointments, bulk billing and domestic mRNA manufacturing. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler, David Bevan and Stacey Lee, ABC Adelaide – 15 August 2022
Read the transcript of the ABC Adelaide interview with Minister Butler on the costs of visiting a GP and strengthening our GP workforce. -
Failed COVIDSafe app deleted
The Albanese Government has acted to delete the wasteful and ineffective COVIDSafe app. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler and Patricia Karvelas, ABC Radio National – 5 August 2022
Read the transcript of the ABC Radio National interview with Minister Butler on the COVID-19 response, isolation rules, the monkeypox response and vaccines, primary care and the Climate Change Bill 2022. -
Australia secures new third-generation monkeypox virus vaccine
The Albanese Government has secured 450,000 doses of the new third-generation monkeypox virus (MPX) vaccine by Bavarian Nordic. -
Minister Butler doorstop in Canberra - 4 August 2022
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's doorstop on Monkeypox; COVID-19 hospitalisations; and vaccines for immunocompromised children.
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TV interview with Minister Butler and Charles Croucher, The Today Show - 4 August 2022
Read the transcript of the TV interview with Minister Butler and Charles Croucher, The Today Show, on COVID-19 vaccine for immunocompromised children aged six months and above and COVID hospitalisations. -
Minister Butler press conference in Canberra - 3 August 2022
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference on Moderna vaccines for children, public awareness campaign, COVID modelling, monkeypox vaccine, lung cancer screening, voluntary assisted dying bill.