• Australian Labor Party Representative for Hindmarsh
• Minister for Health and Aged Care (since 1 Jun 2022)
  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: Health Care (19 Nov 2024)

“I thank the member for Blair for his question. He knows that a big part of our plan to strengthen Medicare was to roll out a network of Medicare urgent care clinics. They are open seven days a week, with extended hours and, very importantly, fully bulk billed. We promised to open 50 clinics last year and we opened 58. We promised to open 29 more clinics this year, and all 29 will be open by...”

Questions without Notice: Regional Australia: Medical Workforce (19 Nov 2024)

“I thank the member for his question and his interest, obviously, in his community broadly but particularly the challenges in delivering good-quality health care in regional Australia. We've had a couple of discussions about this already. Let me say a little bit about what we're trying do to address, frankly, a real shortage of doctors in rural Australia. We've delivered more doctors over the...”

Questions without Notice: Vocational Education and Training (19 Nov 2024)

“This is a very common part of questions. The former government made an absolute art form of it, so it doesn't really sit very well in the opposition manager's mouth to object to it now, after nine years of it.”

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• Has spoken in 62 debates in the last year — 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.
• 74 people are tracking whenever this Representative speaks — email me whenever Mark Butler speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 451 times in debates — above average amongst Representatives. (Why is this here?)

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