1.

What is your idea of what a national peak mental health consumer organisation should
do?

2. How would a national peak mental health consumer organisation be different from
other mental health consumer organisations?

3. What do you or your organisation want from a new peak?

4. What do you think have been the major lessons learned by mental health consumer
organisations in Australia in recent years?

5. What do you consider to be the strengths and resources of the Australian mental health
consumer movement?

6. In your view, what are the major challenges and difficulties confronting the
establishment of a new peak organisation?

7. What are your ideas about what the new organisation should be like – how would you
like it to walk, talk and feel? For example:

• – What should be its principles and values?

• – Who would be its m ship?
• – How might it be structured?
• – How should it be governed?
• – How would it be accountable to its members?
• – How would it communicate with its members and vice a versa?
• – How would it work with other mental health consumer organizations as well as
other organisations?

8. What are your ideas and suggestions about possible organisational models for the new
peak body?

9. Once the new peak is established and gets to work, in your view, what should be its
priorities?

10. Are there any other big questions you think we should be asking?