July 2017

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The 2017 Donatelife Week campaign has changed the relationship between the Australian community and Donatelife.

July 2016

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Organ donation is a challenge.

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Against a backdrop of empirical evidence, we see a push by a privileged and powerful lobby group to increase the availability of organ transplants through policy that incapacitates and disempowers individuals and families.

 

Exactly the opposite effect to what the evidence says is the most powerful leverage point in changing attitudes.

December 2016

 

An extract from Holly's speech at the Canberra Thank You Day function.

December 2015​

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The opening ceremony of the International Organ Donation and Transplantation Procurement Congress in Seoul, Korea, carried a tribute to those who make transplantation happenorgan and tissue donor heroes.

 

This caught my attention because despite widespread public use of the term in relation to organ donation, the idea of donors and donor families as heroes is contentious in philosophical and regulatory circles.

June 2014

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Keeping abreast of the science and innovation that enables successful organ transplantation remains a challenge!

December 2014

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It is impossible to approach the Christmas period without acknowledging the meaning that many Australians find from their religious beliefs.

December 2013

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Holly's brief reflections on the International Organ Donation Congress recently held in Sydney.

March 2017

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A timely look back from where we started our humble beginnings to where we are aiming to ensure that Donor Families views are heard and are taken into consideration within the Organ and Tissue Donation System

April 2016

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An important recommendation from the Ernst and Young review of the national reform agenda on organ and tissue donation and transplantation was, the OTA should consider revising the Donatelife logo in light of the concerns expressed by donor families.

March 2015​

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Recent press releases by the Parliamentary Secretary for Health Fiona Nash (2015) and the Shadow Minister for Health, Catherine King (2015) have effectively blamed the decline in Australia’s 2014 organ donation numbers on the families of deceased people.

July 2015​

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There has been much comment over the past two months regarding a review into the implementation of the Australian organ donation reform.

October 2014

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The gift of tissue donation provides great hope to people who are unable to see, to patients who suffer life threatening burns, to children with cancer who face amputation and others who can benefit from bone and other transplantation therapies.

September 2013

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Over the last few weeks a number of incidents in the public sphere have highlighted the problem of callous, inaccurate and insensitive representation of organ donation.

May 2013

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The launch of Donor Families Australia provides a wonderful opportunity for Donor Families to improve community acceptance of organ and tissue donation.