My Mind

Beberapa media Australia seperti Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane News sama News.com.au meliput berita tentang pelarangan model dibawah usia 16 tahun buat ngikutin acara Rosemount Australian Fashion Week. Kontroversi ini dimulai dengan rencana diikutkannya modal Monica Jagaciak, model asal Polandia yang baru berumur 14 tahun, dalam acara tersebut.

Beberapa pihak mengkritik rencana it dengan alasan: Monica masih dibawah umur, seharusnya masih dalam usia sekolah dan bersenang-senang dan belum saatnya dibebani stress pekerjaan sebagai model dengan tuntutan penampilan yang serba prima. Di lain pihak, pihak yang setuju berargumen, “Kalo ada anak 14 tahun pengen jalan di catwalk dan pake pakaian bagus, ngapain dilarang-larang? Asal dianya dijaga sama orang tua atau manajer, gak masalah lah.”

Pemerintah New South Wales sendiri gak keberatan dengan Monica, dengan alasan asal ada manajer yang bertanggung jawab dan tidak melanggar peraturan. Secara peraturan memang tidak ada yang dilanggar, secara umum memang Australia tidak memiliki batasan umur dalam untuk model.

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The case of James Hardie has illustrated an interaction between a company and its society when the company’s activities have caused serious negative impacts to its society. Society expects positive impacts from the companies in return for the opportunity given to the companies to exploit economic resources of society. Society also expects companies to minimize negative impacts caused by their operation. Moreover, companies should acknowledge moral liability to its society when companies’ activities have generated severe negative effects. In relation to the moral liability, companies are expected to react appropriately and to take full responsibility for any unfavorable consequences from their operations.

Since 1960’s, asbestos has been widely known as the cause of several fatal diseases, such as: mesothelioma, asbestosis and other cancers. Having established in the late 19th century, James Hardie has evolved as the largest building materials manufacturer, especially asbestos-based products, throughout Australia. The James Hardie’s involvement in asbestos-related production was began in 1916. For several decades, asbestos have been widely used in Australia in many types of building products. Briton has estimated that asbestos-based products were used in constructing one out of three of all Australian homes which were built earlier than 1985. The exposures of asbestos in such long period and vast area of might result in many potential asbestos victims in the future.

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This post is paraphrased from this articel.

People will answer variously when they were asked this question: What is the correlation between money and happiness? Some people will stand that money have no relationship with happiness while others insist that money have a strong correlation with happiness.

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