SIT-STAND DESKS MAKE YOUR EMPLOYEES HAPPIER

Researchers urge corporations to invest in sit-stand desks for workers’ well-being

By Winmas Yu

Sydney – January 22 2016

Ground breaking research shows sit-stand desks can boost employees’ energy and maintain productivity levels at work.

Sit-stand desk: Rumba 2 Stage Workstation (Image: Zenith Interiors)

Linguistic and visual analysis of a news story on the Liberal Party leadership challenge

On Tuesday, September 15, 2015, The Sydney Morning Herald published an article written by Mark Kenny, titled Turnbull calls for era of fresh vision with the sub-title Showdown: ‘It will be a thoroughly Liberal government’ (Kenny, 2015a; Appendix A), following the dramatic event happened on Monday, in which the federal government’s by then communication minister Malcolm Turnbull called for a special Liberal Party meeting to vote for a new party leader and prime minister for the nation. The equivalent online story on The Sydney Morning Herald’s website is titled Liberal leadership: Malcolm Turnbull defeats Tony Abbott to become PM (Kenny, 2015b).

Release of Doves at St. Mary's Cathedral

[SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA] United Nations Australia and the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney celebrated in advance the International Day of Peace yesterday, Sunday the 20th of September, by releasing doves at the front of St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. 

"Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." Hundreds of Christians demonstrates persistence in traditional marriage

[SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA] More than 300 Christians gathered at Sydney landmark Martin Place in the afternoon yesterday, Sunday the 20th of September, following a march from Belmore Park. Participants reaffirmed their stance on same-gender marriage - a teardown of the fabric of human society.

Christians arriving Martin Place. Photo: Winmas 

State-Media Relations in China: Media Commercialisation and the Rise of Citizen Journalism

In recent decades, economic reforms and technological developments have provide Chinese citizens new channels for obtaining and spreading information, namely the commercialisation of media and the rise of citizen journalism. Although state-media relations have not been evidently improved, as monitoring and self-censorship are ongoing, there have been instances that the media are getting greater attention from the Government.

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Commercialism “with Chinese characteristics”

Commercialisation is the detachment of media outlets from political parties. It is the transformation of a state-owned organisation into a privately-owned corporate, which depends on advertising and other business activities for revenue. It is commonly identified that commercialisation will “foster liberalisation, establish or deepen democracy, and encourage the development of a globalised media culture” (Hadland, & Zhang, 2012). However, this is not the case for China. Some extreme opinions argue that commercialisation causes destructive consequences to China, both politically and socially (Hadland, & Zhang, 2012).