• 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
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Questions without Notice: Medicare (25 Nov 2025)

“Only 10 nurses have ever served in this parliament, and three of them are in the chamber right now, including the terrific member for Bullwinkel. As a government committed to strengthening Medicare, we on this side are so lucky to have nurses, doctors, psychologists and a pharmacist all helping us to guide that important agenda. Last week the member for Bullwinkel and I visited the Mount...”

Questions without Notice: Medicare (24 Nov 2025)

“Thanks to the member for Banks. He and I visited the health hub at Narwee only a few weeks ago. I'm delighted to say that the health hub has registered as a bulk-billing practice for Medicare—bulk-billing all of their patients, all of the time. As well as receiving bulk-billing payments for all of their patients, including those without a concession card, for the first time, that...”

Questions without Notice: Health Care (6 Nov 2025)

“I acknowledge the member's advocacy for the return of this privatised hospital, effectively, to public hands. Can I remind the House that no Labor government has privatised hospitals over the last 30 years, while Liberal government after Liberal government around the country has persisted with this failed experiment of privatising public acute care hospitals. The first time I dealt with it...”

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• Has spoken in 50 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") 511 times in debates — above average amongst Representatives. (Why is this here?)

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