Sue Boyce (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Macdonald. When we talk about forceful negotiations with Ms Bligh, I think the place she needs to start looking for forceful negotiations is within her own party. We at least agreed with her wholeheartedly when she countermanded and pushed to the side her hopeless and useless state health minister, Stephen Robertson. We agreed that he certainly was ‘denecessary’.

If you look at the stories in today’s paper about Ms Bligh’s attempt to suggest that she is in charge in Queensland, you find the minister and member for Cairns, Desley Boyle, telling the Premier, ‘Not so fast.’ I think it is Ms Bligh who may find herself ‘denecessary’. Certainly the people of Queensland feel that way about their health system.