I like many Australians have been touched by the bravery and integrity of 26 year old cancer sufferer Clare Oliver. Her strength in the face of adversity is a credit to herself and the Australian public. I myself have in the past used solarium's, but it is safe to say now that i have learnt my lesson, fortunately not the hard way like so many young Australians. Solarium's themselves deliver five times more ultraviolet rays than the midday sun and if that in itself does not suggest there is something seriously wrong, then i do not know what will. In her public appearance on the ABC 7:30 Report Ms Oliver said of tanning within Australia, "I guess it's just embedded in the Australian culture to be dark, not just dark but that golden tan. It sort of symbolises health, it symbolises just being a beautiful girl." Ms Oliver now has to pay the price of her life for trying to amount up to what is considered to be the "ideal" in Australia. With skin cancer particularly on the rise with Australia, when will this stupidity be put to an end? Isn't life itself is more precious than vanity and a meaningless tan? Tragically young lives have to be taken like that of Ms Oliver, an itelligent articulate and beautiful young woman.I appalled Ms Oliver's desire to speak publicly about her private plight, her will to live and her desire to speak out has seen her become the star she always longed to be.
*References- The Bulletin
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