Photo: Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority advisory council member Anne Cahill-Lambert says using social networking is a new trend in finding organs. Photo: Richard Briggs
''I think the only place I don't tweet is church, and sometimes that might be a good idea mightn't it?'' Ann Cahill Lambert laughs as she envisages publishing live critiques of Sunday sermons on the internet.
Ms Cahill Lambert, of Lyneham, fought a high-profile battle a few years ago for access to public funding for life-saving medical oxygen.
One of the latest campaigns she has allied herself with is the fight to raise public awareness of, and support for, organ and tissue donation.
It is a campaign being played out in part using the social network sites Facebook and Twitter to capture the attention of young people.
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