ABSTRACT
One of the women’s requests to Lisa Harvey, the State Minister forHealth, was to consider having a competent local woman on the hospital board as a priority. Well, things were going in a different
direction for Queensland public sector health services and in 1990 the
Queensland Department of Health produced a green paper to give
information to the community about a proposal for change. The gov-
ernment was considering making hospital boards redundant, amongst
other things, and the green paper was really a discussion paper direct-
ed by the government purely for discussion by the people. The State
Health Minister was then Ken McElligott MLA.
