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Mark Butler

September 2023

  • The opposition point to pharmacists in the public galleries during question time

    Speaker investigates after rowdy pharmacists disrupt question time in Canberra

    Independent MP Zali Steggall claims opposition members encouraged protesters and calls for ‘disorderly conduct’ to be addressed

August 2023

  • Gary Johns at CPAC

    Albanese accuses Gary Johns of ‘failure’ to show respect to Indigenous Australians after offensive comments

  • Australian Health Minister Mark Butler speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra

    Australian Politics
    Mark Butler on pushing for cheaper medicine through the Coalition ‘circus’ – Australian politics podcast

June 2023

  • Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

    On Higgins and grants, Labor must earn a reputation for transparency – not just declare it

    Paul Karp Chief political correspondent
  • Minister for health and aged care Mark Butler

    Labor’s new grant category proposal criticised by legal experts as ‘retrograde step’

  • Albert Park in Melbourne

    Albanese government looks to revive $5m grant made under Coalition government against legal advice

  • Glenys Beauchamp at a Senate inquiry

    Audit finds Morrison-era health department deliberately breached guidelines administering $2bn program

May 2023

  • An Australian Aboriginal flag is seen next to the Australian flag

    Concerns for mental health of Indigenous Australians amid reported uptick in abuse as voice debate progresses

    Health minister says he fears referendum could follow path of 2017 marriage equality plebiscite which saw LGBTQ+ people become targets for vilification
  • A pile of pills

    Health minister accuses pharmacists’ lobby of ‘dishonest scare campaign’ on medicine shortages

    Mark Butler says group is ‘deliberately misleading consumers’ and a phased rollout of the scheme will avert a surge in demand

    • Australia news live
      Central bank decision a ‘wake-up call’, opposition say – as it happened

    • Mark Butler on vape sellers: 'We have been duped' – video

    • Albanese government to raise tobacco tax by 5% a year to make smoking ‘more unattractive’

April 2023

  • A recent Australian study of 1,006 people aged between 15 and 30 years showed 14% were current vape users and 33% had vaped in the past.

    Australian government expected to crack down on illegal vaping amid rising uptake by teens

  • Daniel Andrews, Natasha Fyles, Mark McGowan, Annastacia Palaszczuk, Chris Minns, Anthony Albanese, Peter Malinauskas, Jeremy Rockliff and Andrew Barr are seen during a press conference

    Major $2.2bn Medicare overhaul welcomed but medical association warns budget will be ‘real test’

  • Pharmacist

    Despite tears and panic from the pharmacy lobby, Labor’s medicine reforms won’t cause the world to end

    Elizabeth Deveny
  • Tablets fall from a jar

    Pharmacists claim children at risk of overdose under Labor’s two-for-one prescription changes

  • Two-for-one prescription changes to save Australian patients more than $1.6bn

  • AMA president warns of ‘more illness, more loss of life’ from Covid as cases rise

February 2023

  • Aged care worker with a elderly resident in a wheelchair

    Fair Work Commission overrules government on incremental aged care workers’ pay rise

  • A composite image of a doctors office, line graph and a hand holding a Medicare card

    Datablog
    Revealed: more Australians than ever are paying to see a doctor as new data shows worst-hit areas

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