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.
Contact
Latest media
Read the latest media releases, speeches and transcripts.
Minister for Health and Aged Care, doorstop - 18 June 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's doorstop in Melbourne on chiropractors reinstating the ban on the spinal manipulation on infants under two.-
New biotech company tackles hard-to-treat cancers
A new biotech company launched today will use a world-leading technology to target cancers that are difficult to treat with existing medicines. -
Certainty in First Nations community healthcare to help close the gap
Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) will have certainty to plan for the future, thanks to four-year rolling funding agreements from July 1, 2024, announced by the Albanese Labor Government. -
Minister for Health and Aged Care - press conference - 14 June 2024
Read the transcript from Minister Butler's press conference on funding for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, chiropractors manipulating infant spines, Government’s neglect of the healthcare system, hospital funding negotiations. -
Expanded PBS listings for lung cancer and a chronic skin disease
Australians with non-small cell lung cancer and the chronic skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa, now have access to expanded treatment options under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). -
Delivering a Newcastle-Lake Macquarie Urgent Care Clinic
The Australian Government is delivering on its promise to strengthen Medicare for the Hunter with a new Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC) to be established to service Lake Macquarie and Newcastle. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler and Richard King, 2HD Newcastle - 12 June 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Richard King on an additional Medicare Urgent Care Clinic for the Newcastle-Lake Macquarie area; new smoking and vaping campaigns; quit supports; drinking water guidelines; immunisation. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler and Craig Reucassel, ABC Radio Sydney - 12 June 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Craig Reucassel on new vaping and smoking public health campaigns; quit supports. -
Minister for Health and Aged Care – press conference – 12 June 2024
Read the transcript from Minister Butler's press conference which covered the Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in the Newcastle-Lake Macquarie region. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler and Dan Cox, ABC Newcastle - 12 June 2024
Read the radio interview with Minister Butler, Dan Cox and Jenny Marchant on Medicare Urgent Care Clinic for the Newcastle-Lake Macquarie area.