David Koch quits government role on air, tells Fiona Nash to 'get a backbone'

By Megan Levy
Updated May 27 2015 - 6:09pm, first published 12:57pm
David Koch resigns from the Organ and Tissue Authority's advisory council on live television. Photo: Seven Network
David Koch resigns from the Organ and Tissue Authority's advisory council on live television. Photo: Seven Network
Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash. Photo: Andrew Meares
Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash. Photo: Andrew Meares

Sunrise co-host David Koch has resigned on live national television as chairman of the federal government's organ donation advisory council while firing an extraordinary parting shot at Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash, telling her to "get a backbone".

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