The Hon Mark Butler MP

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Mark Butler has been a Labor Member in the Federal Parliament since 2007 and has been the Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care since May 2022.

He served under the Gillard Government as Minister for Ageing and Australia’s inaugural Minister for Mental Health. He has also held the ministries of Housing, Homelessness, Social Inclusion, Climate Change, Water and the Environment.

Before Mark was elected to Parliament, he worked for some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in the community as an official with United Voice for over 15 years, 11 of those years as State Secretary.