{"id":729242,"date":"2026-06-11T08:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729242\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T08:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:19:15","slug":"solarium-concerns-despite-decade-long-commercial-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729242\/","title":{"rendered":"Solarium concerns despite decade-long commercial ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">An underground solarium market in Melbourne appears to be booming, raising questions around the enforcement of a Victorian ban.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Solariums were banned for commercial use in 2015, following the death of Melbournian Claire Oliver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Since then, Victoria has seized more than 40 tanning beds and successfully prosecuted 19 illegal operators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Despite that many operations have now just moved underground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">ABC NewsRadio&#8217;s Sarah Morice spoke with Jay Allen, a melanoma survivor and founder of the Australian Skin Cancer Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An underground solarium market in Melbourne appears to be booming, raising questions around the enforcement of a Victorian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,49454,105],"class_list":["post-729242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-newsradio","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}