• Australian Labor Party Representative for Hindmarsh
• Minister for Health and Ageing (since 13 May 2025)
  Minister for Disability and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (since 13 May 2025)
  Deputy Leader of the House (since 1 Jun 2022)
• Entered House of Representatives on 24 November 2007 — Federal election
• Email me whenever Mark Butler speaks (no more than once per day)

• Voting record
• Numbers
• Register of Interests

Questions without Notice: Medicare (27 Nov 2025)

“Thank you to the member for Lalor for her question and her support for a stronger Medicare. There are now 29 Medicare bulk-billing practices in her electorate that are bulk-billing all of their patients all of the time, as well as the Werribee urgent care clinic that's seen almost 30,000 patients, and early next year there will be a new endometriosis and pelvic pain clinic in Werribee as...”

Questions without Notice: Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (26 Nov 2025)

“Thanks to the Member for Griffith. She knows that the PBS is one of Australia's great social programs. For more than 80 years now, it's guaranteed access for Australians to the best medicines in the world at affordable prices. Since we came to government we have made more than 350 new or expanded listings on the PBS. This month we added a new treatment for multiple myeloma called Darzalex,...”

Questions without Notice: Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (26 Nov 2025)

“Pensioners have received 83 million additional free scripts because of our changes to the safety net threshold, and, in five weeks time, PBS scripts will be capped at just $25, the same price they were back in 2004. While the opposition opposed many of those measures last term, they promised in May that they would support all of these election commitments. But I regret to say that risks to...”

More of Mark Butler's recent appearances

RSS feed (?)

Please note that numbers do not measure quality. Also, Representatives may do other things not currently covered by this site. (More about this)

• Has spoken in 51 debates in the last year — well above average amongst Representatives.
• People have made 3 comments on this Representative's speeches — well above average amongst Representatives.
• This Representative's speeches are understandable to an average 19–20 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 78 people are tracking whenever this Representative speaks — email me whenever Mark Butler speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 514 times in debates — above average amongst Representatives. (Why is this here?)

Mark Butler's latest interest statement