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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Ensuring access to rare cancer treatment for patients with neuroblastoma
Every Australian child and young adult with high-risk neuroblastoma will continue to have free access at Australian hospitals to a promising medicine not otherwise available in Australia, known as DFMO, thanks to an agreement secured from the Albanese Government.-
Queensland's Stronger Medicare Awards finalists
A GP, a nurse, an Aboriginal health practitioner and two multidisciplinary health teams are Queensland’s finalists in the Stronger Medicare Awards. -
Almost $18 million for world-first Australian research project for heart attack protection
The Albanese Government is investing almost $18 million in a world-first Australian research project that will trial a drug discovered by Australian researchers that protects the heart during a heart attack. -
Minister for Health and Aged Care - press conference - 3 October 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference on Para Hills Medicare Urgent Care Clinic. -
SA Medicare Urgent Care Clinics hit 50,000 presentations as new clinic opens in Para Hills
The Australian Government is delivering better access to urgent health care for residents in Adelaide’s northeast with the opening of a new Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC) at the McIntyre Medical Centre. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler and Matthew Pantelis, FIVEAA Mornings - 2 October 2024
Read the interview between Minister Butler and Matthew Pantelis on the shingles vaccination. -
Pharmacists prepared to help Australians quit vaping
From today, new vaping reforms come into force to protect Australian kids from the harms of vaping and nicotine dependence. -
$50 million for innovative research into mental health, melanoma and more
The search for a multi-season flu vaccine, better treatment for schizophrenia, and how gut microorganisms may fight off melanoma, are 3 projects sharing in $50 million in health research funding from the Australian Government. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler and Jacqui Felgate, 3AW - 1 October 2024
Read the transcript of the radio interview with Minister Butler and Jacqui Felgate on vape law changes -
Securing supply of PrEP
The Australian Government is ensuring thousands of Australians, with or at risk of contracting HIV, are protected by securing the supply of tenofovir with emtricitabine, or PrEP, by temporarily approving the supply on an alternative overseas-registered brand.