QLD: Mike Horan profile

AAP General News (Australia)
02-26-1999
QLD: Mike Horan profile

* Mike Horan, 54, entered parliament in a 1991 by-election in the safe National Party seat
of Toowoomba South.

* He was opposition health spokesman for three years before becoming Health Minister in the
BORBIDGE-SHELDON Coalition Government.

* The state's health services received a big shake under his stewardship, with 13 regional
health authorities being replaced by 38 district health councils, hospital waiting lists being
cut and the budget coming in on target for the first time in three years.

* Mr HORAN gained plaudits for the Coalition government through …