Television presenter David Koch has resigned as Chairman of the Organ and Tissue Authority Advisory Council in protest over the Government's handling of a review into organ donation.

Koch slammed Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash, who has ordered an investigation because transplant rates "have not increased as quickly as intended".

On Channel Seven's Sunrise this morning, Koch defended progress on donation rates as "world-class" and told the Minister to "get a backbone".

"You didn't even ring me as chairman of the Advisory Council to get my view or even tell me it's coming," he said.

"Obviously I've got no choice but to resign from the position and actively counter the tripe dished out by a whole bunch of rich lobbyists that just talk and do nothing."

Koch accused the Government of caving into the pressure from lobby group, ShareLife, which has criticised reforms of Australia's organ and tissue donation system.

A spokeswoman for ShareLife said: "We're disappointed that Kochie has chosen to attack people rather than sticking to the facts.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-27/david-koch-resigns-as-chairman-of-organ-and-tissue-authority/6500546

Unfortunately in a country where people get older, the organs available are usually third rate... unless there is a fatal car crash of younger people. But the RTA (or whatever it calls itself these days with Maritime in it) has recently decided not to mention on your driver's licence if you are an organ donor or not... It may have something to do with, by law, having to contact families regardless of your own good wishes...

Recently there was this movie on the box called Seven Pounds... It had a good cast but soon fell into "smolscth"... The past and the present were often mixed in often undetectable fashion... I will say here that we never remember actual events in such vivid details but we remember non-detailed visions, which attached resultant "guilt" or "mistake" or "courage" make us remember this fuzzy past some more, but never in clear cinematographic precision. We can't even visually remember what we saw two seconds ago. 

All this to say that I was bobbing along the doubtful hidden storyline... When  the characters printed beautiful coloured images on a one colour press from the 19th century, I smelled a big rat... There was not even a hint of symbolism... From there the movie degraded into impracticality. The main character wanted to commit suicide and give his organs to specific people he had chosen. His heart, the seven pound organ was to be given to a new acquaintance girlfriend who owed cash to the IRS, but was in need of a new pump so could not pay the bill. 

The geezer eventually kills himself using a deadly medusa in a bath of ice. The medusa I believe was the deadliest known animal to humankind, I guessed the Chironex box jellyfish. But one has to know that these deadly jellyfish, plentiful along the northern coast of perfect Queensland, only live in specific warm SEA waters. Thus for our suicidal hero to keep one of these in an aquarium would have necessitated some mighty installation. Furthermore, as the deadly beast is placed in the cold icy water it would have died faster than it would have been able to strike its deadly barbs. 

I was not impressed... But the hero dies anyway, punishing himself for having created a car accident that had killed seven people who to say the least could have been harvested for organs... So the girl-girlfriend gets his heart, the blind call centre pianist gets his corneas and all is well — with violin musak or was it pianoland pushing the believable beyond gullibility. The same main actor was also on the box the same night in another non-credible movie, MiB, Men in Black... but funnier...

Disclaimer: Gus is involved in organ donations bizos... See toon at top.