The Latest Breaking News from Mark Butler

Health minister says professor and WHO advisor was ‘an incredibly calm, articulate voice at a time that was very frightening’

Patients will be able to buy two months of medicine from pharmacies for price of one, saving more than $1.6bn over four years

Pharmacies will be paid thousands more to dispense medicines from July 1 as part of a government funding boost.

Audit committee calls for crackdown on politicised funding schemes following controversy over urban congestion and building better regions funds

Newborns will be tested for a wider range of rare health conditions in a promised overhaul that also seeks to iron out differences in screening between states.

Earlier this year, federal health minister Mark Butler announced a new national Lung Cancer Screening Program. The first of its kind for lung cancer, the screening program will open initially to current and former smokers aged 50 to 70 years by July 2025. It aims to save lives by detecting…

We look at how the claims of potentially 20,000 job losses, medicine shortages and billion-dollar revenue falls stack up

A search is underway for a missing submersible that carries people to view the wreckage of the Titanic

Allegation raised in parliament that MP arranged for property developer Alex Sekler to travel to Torres Strait for Covid jab referred to state corruption watchdog