Region. Skinner introduces bill

Professor Stephen Leeder, the chairman of the Western Sydney governing council, said the government might change some of the members to better handle the increased responsibilities it would give the district boards. These included increased financial responsibilities. ''I don't think it's driven by a political vendetta,'' he said in The Sydney Morning Herald. Professor Leeder was commenting on the bill introduced in state parliament by the Minister for Health, Jillian Skinner, to change the names of local health networks to local health districts, and rebadge the governing councils that run them as district health boards.