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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Goodna and Oxley Medicare Urgent Care Clinics Open
The Goodna and Oxley Medicare Urgent Care Clinics are now open so more Queenslanders can access free urgent care closer to home.-
Life changing endometriosis treatment now cheaper
For the first time in three decades, women living with endometriosis will now have access to a new treatment on the PBS. -
Minister Butler press conference, Adelaide
Endometriosis treatment now cheaper.
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Minister for Health and Aged Care, speech - 28 November 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's speech at World Aids Day Parliamentary Breakfast. -
Release of new National HIV Strategy
On the eve of World AIDS Day, the Australian Government has launched the 9th National HIV Strategy to virtually eliminate HIV transmission in Australia by 2030. -
$50 million towards a cure for Type 1 Diabetes
The Albanese Government is supporting the next phase of the search for a cure for Type 1 Diabetes through a $50.1 million investment in the Australian Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Research Network (T1DCRN), delivered through the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Australia. -
Minister for Health and Aged Care, speech – 26 November 2024
Read Minister Butler's address to Kids in the House 2024. -
Television interview with Minister Butler and Sarah Abo, Today Show - 26 November 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Sarah Abo and Karl Stefanovic on type one diabetes. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler and Gary Adshead, 6PR – 22 November 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Gary Adshead which covered Bupa and Healthscope, vaping, breast cancer and Medicare Urgent Care Clinics. -
Minister for Health and Aged Care, speech – 22 November 2024
Read Minister Butler's address to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners GP24 Conference.