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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Budget 2024–25: Cheaper medicines, new Medicare Urgent Care Clinics and more free mental health services in a stronger Medicare
The Albanese Labor Government is continuing to improve our health system: strengthening Medicare, the heart of universal healthcare, easing cost-of-living pressures with cheaper medicines, and embedding new mental health services in Medicare.-
Budget 2024–25: Investing in quality aged care
The Albanese Labor Government has worked hard to improve the quality of life for older Australians. We have put nurses back into nursing homes, given residents more time with their carers, lifted wages in the sector and improved transparency and accountability. -
Strengthening Medicare: more Urgent Care Clinics
The 2024-25 Budget is delivering on the Albanese Government’s promise to make it easier to see a doctor. -
Australians benefit from new lifechanging medicines added to the PBS
Women with endometrial cancer and people with itching associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) will benefit from new lifechanging medicines added to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) from May 1. -
Minister for Health and Aged Care - press conference - 12 May 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference in Adelaide on strengthening Medicare; more Urgent Care Clinics; hospital funding; mental health; elective surgery waitlists. -
Expanding mental health and suicide prevention services in South Australia
More than $26 million will boost essential mental health and suicide prevention support services in South Australia over the next three years. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler and Michael Rowland, ABC News Breakfast - 10 May 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Michael Rowland and Bridget Brennan on historic Medicare changes for women battling endometriosis; domestic violence. -
Television interview interview with Minister Butler and Sarah Abo, Today - 10 May 2024
Read Minister Butler's interview with Sarah Abo on historic Medicare changes for women battling endometriosis. -
Radio interview with Minister Butler and Matthew Pantelis, FIVEAA - 10 May 2024
Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Matthew Pantelis on attracting more doctors to SA regions; historic changes to Medicare for endometriosis. -
Australian Government delivers CDU medical school
The Albanese Government is delivering on the long-term call for Charles Darwin University to establish a medical school in the Northern Territory.