David Koch (television presenter)

Through a ''Sunrise'' campaign and his involvement in ShareLife, Koch influenced the federal government to establish a national authority (the Organ & Tissue Authority) to oversee Australia's organ transplant system.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}} Previously Australia had the highest level of registered organ donors per head of population in the world but one of the lowest transplant rates. The new national authority aims to bring Australian transplant rates up to world's best practice. Koch was Chairman of the 'Organ and Tissue Authority Advisory Council' but resigned on-air, during a ''Sunrise'' broadcast on 27 May 2015, in protest over a government review of organ donation.{{cite news |last1=Brennan|first1=Bridget |title=Organ transplant audit: Government will review donation to authority |url=http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2015/s4243661.htm |access-date=28 May 2015 |work=PM |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] (ABC) |date=27 May 2015}} Assistant Health Minister [[Fiona Nash]] had failed to advise him about the review.{{cite news |last1=McDonald|first1=Susan |title=David Koch resigns as chairman of Organ and Tissue Authority Advisory Council in protest |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-27/david-koch-resigns-as-chairman-of-organ-and-tissue-authority/6500546 |access-date=28 May 2015 |work=ABC News |publisher=ABC (Australia) |date=28 May 2015}}{{Tweet

Through a ''Sunrise'' campaign and his involvement in ShareLife, Koch influenced the federal government to establish a national authority (the Organ & Tissue Authority) to oversee Australia's organ transplant system.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}} Previously Australia had the highest level of registered organ donors per head of population in the world but one of the lowest transplant rates. The new national authority aims to bring Australian transplant rates up to world's best practice. Koch was Chairman of the 'Organ and Tissue Authority Advisory Council' but resigned on-air, during a ''Sunrise'' broadcast on 27 May 2015, in protest over a government review of organ donation.{{cite news |last1=Brennan|first1=Bridget |title=Organ transplant audit: Government will review donation to authority |url=http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2015/s4243661.htm |access-date=28 May 2015 |work=PM |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] (ABC) |date=27 May 2015}} Assistant Health Minister [[Fiona Nash]] had failed to advise him about the review.{{cite news |last1=McDonald|first1=Susan |title=David Koch resigns as chairman of Organ and Tissue Authority Advisory Council in protest |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-27/david-koch-resigns-as-chairman-of-organ-and-tissue-authority/6500546 |access-date=28 May 2015 |work=ABC News |publisher=ABC (Australia) |date=28 May 2015}}{{Tweet

| name = David Koch

| name = David Koch

| username = @kochie_online

| username = kochie_online

| text = Just for clarity I’m alive and well and enjoying

| text = Just for clarity I’m alive and well and enjoying

@AFL #gatherround in Adelaide with all my family. This stuff is really giving me the shits.

@AFL #gatherround in Adelaide with all my family. This stuff is really giving me the shits.