Turner: Govt wrong to reject organ donor register

United Future health spokesperson Judy Turner says the party is very disappointed with the government’s negative response to Parliament’s health select committee recommendations on the report on establishing an organ donor register.

“The unwillingness to undertake research to gauge public awareness and attitudes is unbelievable,” she said.

“Whatever mechanism we use to improve outcomes for those waiting for an organ donation, we should at least be clear in our minds about the obstacles in people’s thinking to organ donation.

“Talk of cost effectiveness is hard to get one’s head around when small children are in desperate need of life-saving procedures,” said Mrs Turner.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>