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The following question was asked of Peter Jackson during a press conference:

Question: (indecipheable) from the (indecipherable) newspaper in Melbourne. Peter Jackson, not a film question - I hope you don't mind. I was at TheOneRing party last night and ringed by a remarkable young lady called Katy Tookey and her father Andy Tookey. Could you tell us all a little bit about your involvement in the Give Life organisation?

Peter Jackson: Well Andy's daughter Katie has a condition that will probably mean... she's a very young girl about the same age as our daughter and we heard about her and she has a condition that means she will have to have an organ transplant at some stage in the next few years. We sort of contacted Andy to talk to him about it and to see if we could help. He told us a lot that I didn't know about the state of organ donors and the whole thing about how one person can... if they donate their organs... they can save up to eight lives. The fact that so few people do - there's a fear about it, there's an uncertainty, there's just a sense of society that it's not a very good thing to do. So we're just working with Andy to try to do what we can to help and just increase awareness about the really positive effects that you can bring to people's lives by supporting the organ donation idea.


 



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