Alex Stewart urged the Health Minister to show leadership and deal with Metro North. Australia’s biggest hospital service tried to silence the whistleblower who exposed its allegedly corrupt funding of a defamation lawsuit by psychiatrists against a former patient. Metro North’s lawyers demanded Alex Stewart stop the ABC publishing the story Their letter has been referred to Queensland’s corruption watchdog by the Health Minister’s office The State Opposition says the Minister should reveal what he knew and when Metro North hired a top legal firm to warn its former senior commercial lawyer Alex Stewart against going public with the damaging allegations — including that it used legal threats to silence critics. In a letter to Mr Stewart on Monday, Minter Ellison demanded he "take all reasonable steps" to stop the ABC from publishing the story. "I think this is a pretty perfect example of the kind of aggressive legal […]