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Rob Manning
forever grateful recipient & Passionate
organ & tissue donation & transplant awareness advocate



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🚨 Urgent Update Alert! 🚨 Today, recommendations were presented to the Victorian Parliament with the aim of bolstering organ and tissue...
Robert Manning
Mar 20, 20241 min read
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Time to change direction➡️⬆️
🌐 Rethinking Organ Donation Awareness 🫀💬 Despite significant investments in professional sporting sponsorships and lavish sporting...
Robert Manning
Jan 30, 20241 min read
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Unveiling the Real Challenges in Organ Donation
A Call for Change! "Some people say 'don't just talk about the problem, provide a solution.' Well, for two years, I have." The Australian...
Robert Manning
Jan 8, 20242 min read
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Reflections on the Organ and Tissue System: Advocacy, Miracles, and Questions!
In the intricate web of organ donation and transplantation, the question arises: Can the performance of an entire sector truly hinge on...
Robert Manning
Dec 23, 20232 min read
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A Living Miracle on a Transplant Journey
🌟 Rob Manning: A Living Miracle on a Transplant Journey 🌟 Transplant Advocacy, led by Rob Manning, a forever grateful recipient of a...
Robert Manning
Oct 28, 20232 min read
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DECEASED ORGAN DONORS AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE HEROES
In May last year I met with the Lucinda Barry AM CEO of Australian Organ and Tissue Authority and others where I recounted my personal...
Robert Manning
Oct 11, 20232 min read
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NSW Parliament forms Friends of Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplant Awareness Group
A very special thank you to the amazing attendees to the Parliament of NSW Friends of Organ And Tissue Donation and Transplant Awareness...
Robert Manning
Aug 4, 20231 min read
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A new focus is needed
The best thing to come out of #donatelifeweek2023 is #TalkToYourFamily DonateLife need to make all future campaigns focused on the...
Robert Manning
Jul 29, 20231 min read
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A good idea can’t be kept down
After meeting with Transplant Advocacy's Rob Manning in October last year, (2022), Victor Dominello , the Minister for Customer Service...
Robert Manning
Jul 21, 20231 min read
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Honour Our Heroes the way the UK does!
It’s time for Australia to honour OUR amazing Deceased Donors HEROES the way we honour other Australians in the Kings Birthday Awards!...
Robert Manning
Jun 13, 20231 min read
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May 2023 and we are still floundering behind the world and pre COVID rates
It is disappointing that despite Millions of dollars being spent on sports carnivals, professional sports sponsorships and expensive...
Robert Manning
Jun 9, 20231 min read
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Monthly Stats show no increase
Anyone who cares about organ and tissue donation in Australia needs to be across these monthly reports from ANZDATA. Sadly, even though,...
Robert Manning
Jun 7, 20231 min read
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Impassioned advocacy cuts through
I was humbled today to learn, that as a part of his impassioned speech in support of the Organ and Tissue Authority amendment, Josh...
Robert Manning
Jun 2, 20231 min read
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What have you done lately?
17 months after waking up from a 14 day coma, with a second chance thanks to a loving family’s donated gift of life, when their loved...
Robert Manning
Jun 1, 20232 min read
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Why don’t we honour real Heroes?
On ANZAC DAY, take the time to reflect on what heroism is. Saving the lives of others selflessly is one definition. This year the head of...
Robert Manning
Apr 25, 20231 min read
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Australia, our money can be better spent! 🇦🇺💰💰
Australia, our money can be better spent! 🇦🇺💰💰 Last week, I had an amazing experience participating in a MULTI MILLION DOLLAR,...
Robert Manning
Apr 24, 20232 min read
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Questions some will not want asked and others will avoid answering.
As the sun sets on the Olympic sanctioned World Transplant Games, the questions need to be asked again. Did the Australian Federal...
Robert Manning
Apr 22, 20232 min read
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What did you want to be when you grew up?
Many of us have registered our intention to be organ and tissue donors and promote the idea of gifting life to others should we meet with...
Robert Manning
Apr 2, 20232 min read
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Australia is slipping Backwards!
I know how lucky I was to receive my transplant because it happened in a year of decline in Australian. There were 24 fewer liver...
Robert Manning
Feb 7, 20231 min read
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400 Days
For 400 days since my life was saved by a family, who even suffering the loss of a loved, said YES, when they were asked to give NEXT OF...
Robert Manning
Feb 3, 20231 min read
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