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Mark Butler

Mark Butler is the Australian Labor Party MP for Hindmarsh. First elected 24 November 2007.

2007 Won Port Adelaide, entered parliament
2010 Became mental health minister
2013 Became climate and environment minister
2013 Left ministerial office
2015 Became Labor national president
2018 Lost Labor presidency
2019 Won Hindmarsh after redistribution
2022 Became health minister
2007 May 2026
  1. 2007 Won Port Adelaide, entered parliament
  2. 2010 Became mental health minister
  3. 2013 Became climate and environment minister
  4. 2013 Left ministerial office
  5. 2015 Became Labor national president
  6. 2018 Lost Labor presidency
  7. 2019 Won Hindmarsh after redistribution
  8. 2022 Became health minister
  • Australian Labor Party

What do they focus on?

Not enough tracked speeches or amendments to say yet.

  • Health, care & disability 14
  • Immigration, border & security 2

Bars show tracked speeches and amendments by policy area.

How do they vote?

Share of recorded votes on the same side as each party's majority.

  • Labor 100%
  • Greens 66%
  • Coalition 20%
  • One Nation 15%

453 tracked votes while with Labor.

How do they compare?

  • Years in parliament i Total time served across every stint in either chamber, up to the end of the tracked record. 18.6 yrs 0.2 avg 8.5 yrs 33.3
  • Votes against their party i Recorded votes cast against their own party's majority side. The average is across party members only. 0 avg 0.6 26
  • Bills introduced i Bills they introduced to Parliament, counted across the tracked record. 15 avg 2.8 46
  • Amendments sponsored i Amendments to bills they put forward during debate, counted across the tracked record. 0 avg 7.9 226
Where their votes sit, left to right i Built from votes alone: party members sit at their party's mark and move only by votes cast against their own party toward a neighbouring one. Independents are placed by their side on the votes where the parties disagreed.
Mark Greens Labor Coalition One Nation

The marker starts at their party’s position and shifts only for floor-crossings towards a neighbouring party. No topic strip is shown because their economic, social and environment votes followed the party line.

What have they done lately?

On 2 July 2026, Butler spoke in support of the GP incentive-payments bill and voted No on a question criticising the government over GP costs and access; that question was defeated 39–92. On 1 July, he voted No on several NDIS amendment proposals, while voting Aye on a safeguard amendment that carried 101–7. These were votes on specific amendments, not a recorded whole-bill position. His speech supporting the NDIS bill itself is dated 14 May 2026.

When do they vote against their party?

Mark recorded no votes against the Labor position across 453 recorded votes.

What do they say in debate?

24 tracked speeches across 16 bills.

  • 20 backing a bill
  • 1 with reservations
  • 1 against
  • 2 no clear position

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About these numbers

Based on 766 tracked bills from the 47th and 48th Parliaments, current to 6 July 2026. This is a sample of parliamentary activity, not the complete record.

Career markers come from dated public records. Voting figures use division lists only. For party members, the left-to-right marker begins at the party position. It moves only when the member votes against that party and on the same side as a neighbouring party; other cross-party combinations do not affect it. Independents and minor-party members are placed by their votes in divisions where the Greens and the Coalition took opposite sides. If this position differs from a member’s broader public politics, a note appears below the strip.