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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Latest media
Read the latest media releases, speeches and transcripts.
TV interview with Minister Butler, Today Show - 30 January 2026
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo on Nipah virus.-
Austral Medicare Urgent Care Clinic now open
The Australian Government is delivering for residents in south-west Sydney with the opening of the Austral Medicare Urgent Care Clinic. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler, Radio National - 30 January 2026
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Sally Sara on public hospital funding, Thriving Kids, aged care and Nipah virus. -
TV interview with Minister Butler, Sunrise - 30 January 2026
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Natalie Barr. -
Medicare Mental Health Centre for Bondi now open
Free, walk in mental health support is now available in Bondi for people affected by the terrorist attack, as part of the Government’s response to support the local community. -
TV interview with Minister Butler, ABC News Breakfast – 30 January 2026
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with James Glenday about the NDIS and hospital funding negotiations. -
Establishing the Neale Daniher National MND Clinical Network
The Australian Government is investing $40.1 million to create the Neale Daniher National MND Clinical Network and give more people with motor neurone disease (MND) access to treatment -
Neale is a fighter and his legacy will continue
Read Minister Butler's opinion piece on the Neale Daniher National MND Clinical Network published in the Herald Sun on 29 January 2026 -
Press conference with Minister Butler and Deputy Prime Minister Marles, Melbourne – 29 January 2026
Read the transcript of Minister Butler and Deputy Prime Minister Marles’s press conference on investment in Motor Neurone Disease, Nipah virus and hospital funding -
First step towards a national medicines record
For the first time, patients, prescribers and pharmacists will be able to have a complete picture of a patient’s medicines history under sweeping reforms to improve standards of care, being introduced by the Australian Government.