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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Television interview with Minister Butler and Matthew Doran, ABC Afternoon Briefing – 11 July 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Matthew Doran on vapes; access to DFMO.-
Minister for Health and Aged Care – press conference – 10 July 2024
Read the transcript from Minister Butler's joint press conference with the New South Wales Minister for Health and Regional Health, the Hon Ryan Park MP, which covered vaping and free access to a life changing drug to treat childhood neuroblastoma. -
Hope for children with neuroblastoma as Government provides free access to DFMO
Every Australian child and young adult with high-risk neuroblastoma will have free access at Australian hospitals to a promising medicine not otherwise available in Australia, known as DFMO, thanks to funding from the Australian Government. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler and Melinda James, ABC Illawarra – 9 July 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Melinda James on his visit to Shoalhaven, the success of Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, and aged care beds. -
Delivering Medicare Urgent Care Clinics for Bankstown and Carlton
The Australian Government is delivering for people in south and south-west Sydney with two Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (Medicare UCC) to open in Carlton and Bankstown. -
Half a million visits as new Medicare Urgent Care Clinic delivered in Queanbeyan
The Australian Government is strengthening Medicare to deliver a better, fairer and stronger health system and responsible cost of living relief. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler and Angel Parsons, Triple J Hack - 4 July 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Angel Parsons on vaping. -
Over 2 million additional bulk billed GP visits and $414 million saved on medicines
Newly released data shows there has been over two million additional bulk billed visits since the Australian Government tripled the bulk billing incentive, with close to a million additional free visits in May. -
Peak bodies to represent carers, consumers with experience of mental health
The Australian Government is establishing two new independent peak bodies to represent people with lived experience of mental ill-health. -
Release of AIHW flagship report: Australia's Health 2024
The Australian Government’s comprehensive health reform agenda is enabling Australia to meet key health challenges highlighted in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s (AIHW) Australia’s Health 2024 report.