14.11.2025

Submissions

Filed under: Health & genetics

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Some submissions contain information about tissue and organ donation, and the circumstances in which people died before donating tissue, that is confronting and may be upsetting for some people.

1. TASC Legal and Social Justice Services

2. Resilience Rising

3. Confidential

6. National Health and Medical Research Council

7. Melbourne IVF

9. Confidential

10. Name withheld

11. Confidential

13. Confidential

14. Consortium for Australian Children’s Trials in Brain Cancer

18. Confidential

19. Macquarie University

20. Children’s Medical Research Institute

21. Australian Christian Lobby

23. Department of Health for Western Australia

24. Transplant Australia

25. Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of New South Wales

26. Confidential

28. Lions Eye Donation Service

29. Australasian Biospecimen Network Association

30. Cardiac Transplant Advisory Committee of TSANZ

31. Confidential

32. R Banks, A Newson, M Otlowski and G Watts

33. NSW Health Pathology

34. Confidential

35. Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ)

36. Lung Transplant Advisory Committee of TSANZ

37. Liver and Intestinal Transplant Advisory Committee of TSANZ

38. Paediatric Transplant Advisory Committee of TSANZ

39. RTAC Kidney Machine Perfusion Working Group of TSANZ

40. NSW Organ & Tissue Donation Service

41. Confidential

42. Stem Cell Donors Australia and ANZTCT

44. Norton Rose Fulbright

45. Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine

46. Confidential

47. Centre for Law and Genetics

49. Confidential

50. Australian Alliance for Indigenous Genomics

51. Department of Health, Disability and Ageing Portfolio

52. Falun Dafa Association

53. Confidential

54. International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China

55. Donor Families Australia

56. Confidential

57. Co-Directors of Liver and Kidney Transplant Services, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

58. Confidential

60. University of Sydney

61. Law Council of Australia

63. The Kids Research Institute Australia

64. Private Healthcare Australia

65. Australian Centre for Transplantation Excellence and Research

66. Children’s Cancer Institute

67. Health Law Group, Monash University

68. Victorian Cancer Biobank Consortium

70. A Cignarella, A Marshall, J Hewitt and K Ranse

71. Name withheld

72. Name withheld

77. Western Australian Paediatric Kidney Transplant Service

79. Australian Catholic Bishops Conference

81. Biotherapeutics Association of Australasia and the Eye Bank Association of Australia and New Zealand

82. Department of Anatomy and Physiology, University of Melbourne

83. Confidential

84. C Stewart, I Kerridge, L Macken and G Skowronski

87. Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences

88. Clinical Training and Evaluation Centre, University of Western Australia

90. Confidential

91. Confidential

92. Confidential

93. Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society, Death and Organ Donation Committee

94. N Hawkins and D Wakefield

95. N Hawkins, D Wakefield, J Turchini, A Field, N Tedla, A Gill, G Velan, J Baum, S McColl, C Herbert, S Thomas and T Mackenzie

96. A Suthananthan

98. Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Nephrology & Renal Transplantation Department

99. L Delriviere

100. G P Jeffrey

102. A Philipoff

103. Royal College of Pathologists of Australia

104. K Stefanidis

105. I Jayasinghe

108. Name withheld

109. B Ng

110. S Kurdyukov

111. Australian Catholic Bishops Conference

112. Confidential

113. Confidential

115. DonateLife Qld

117. E Hardeman

119. Confidential

120. Confidential

121. A Johnston

122. Australian and New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists

123. Confidential

124. Confidential

127. Confidential

128. National Health and Medical Research Council

129. Confidential

130. BMDI Cord Blood Bank

131. N Widdicombe

132. G Formentin

133. Children’s Cancer Institute

134. R Balleine

135. The Volunteer Biospecimen Donor Registry, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

136. Australian Christian Lobby

137. Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists

138. L Schroeter

139. G Moalem-Taylor

140. Confidential

142. C Cox

143. Confidential

144. Eye Bank of South Australia

146. The Working Group, 2025 Code of Practice for the Diagnosis and Confirmation of Death, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, United Kingdom

147. R Martinez Marmol

148. L Liu

149. E Sierecki

152. Australian Centre for Transplantation Excellence and Research

153. Confidential

154. Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists

155. Confidential

157. Confidential

160. Confidential

161. A Jefferson

162. Confidential

163. Confidential

164. Transplant Australia

165. Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry Board

166. Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion

167. Confidential

168. University of Queensland

169. L Campbell

170. Australasian Biospecimen Network Association

172. D Luque Buzo

173. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government

174. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

175. Confidential

177. Victorian Cancer Biobank Consortium

178. Westmead Biobank

180. J Liu

181. International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China

183. D Wakefield and N Hawkins

184. Johnson & Johnson

185. Queensland Intensive Care Clinical Network

186. Donor Families Australia

187. Confidential

188. Australian Tissue Donation Network

189. Falun Dafa Association

190. Confidential

191. Confidential

192. Centre for Law and Genetics

193. Human Tissue Advisory Committee, School of Medicine, Deakin University

195. Liver and Kidney Transplant Services Clinicians, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, New South Wales

196. Australian Alliance for Indigenous Genomics

197. Confidential

198. Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences

199. Biotherapeutics Association of Australasia and Eye Bank Association of Australia and New Zealand

200. Confidential

201. The Alfred (Alfred Care Group, Bayside Health), Victoria

202. Lions Eye Donation Service

203. Australian Breastfeeding Association

206. A McGee and D Gardiner

207. St Vincent’s Health Australia

208. Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

209. Plunkett Centre for Ethics, Australian Catholic University

210. University of Sydney

211. Australian Organ and Tissue Authority

212. Bellberry Limited

213. World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative Australia

214. National Blood Authority

215. Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne

216. Western Australian Liver & Kidney Transplant Service

218. W Lim and K Wyburn

219. Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand

220. Paediatric Transplantation Advisory Committee of TSANZ

221. Confidential

222. Western Australia, Department of Health

223. Commonwealth Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

224. Confidential

225. Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine

226. Coroners Court of Victoria

228. Name withheld

229. Law Council of Australia

230. Department of Health (Tas)

232. Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society, Death and Organ Donation Committee

233. NSW Health

234. Confidential

235. Confidential