business year 11

1. Gillard struggles to sell carbon tax
 Source: The Courier-Mail, Daily Telegraphy
 Date: March 03,2011
 The article is about economics.
 The influence is political influence because it is dealing
with the government, and the impact that it has on the
business.
 The article involved all tax payers.
 Julia Gillard struggles to sell carbon tax and she think
it will encourage families to shop greener. But
shoppers will pay more for goods that cause pollution
under her carbon tax.
 This is happening currently in Australia.
 It happened in Canberra.
 This is happening because there is too much carbon
pollution in the world. It is causing Global Warming.
Carbon has to be reduced.
 This will affect the national economy because people
will have less money to spend.

2. South Australia farmers to reap the
riches
 Source: The Advertiser, Daily Telegraph,
 Date: December 15, 2010
 The article is about economic
 The influence is economic influence because it is about
the increasing of farm production and it affected the
economy.
 The article involved South Australian farmers, NSW
farmers and Western Australia farmers.
 SA farmers will top the nation with the best financial
performance due to improved output and prices in
2010-11.
 This is happening currently in Australia.
 It happened in South Australia, New South Wales, and
Western Australia.

3.  This happened because of good weather and good
conditions.
 This increased production makes more money coming
into Australia because of increased export, and
farming industry will get more money.
Oil prices rally despite Saudi output
pledge
 Source: AFP, Daily Telegraphy
 Date: March 02,2011
 The influence is geographic influence
because it is oil of Libya.
 The article involved Australia and
Libya.
 This is happening currently in
Australia.
 It happened in Australia and Libya.
 This is happening because of Libya‘s
civil war, this means the oil from Libya

4. has been stopped. This affected
Australia because oil has become rarer
and it has gone up in price.
Queensland’s loss is NSW’s gain
 Source: Herald sun, Daily Telegraph,
 Date: January 18, 2010
 The article is about geographic location.
 The influence is product location because it is
about the region of natural disaster, and the
impact that it has on the business.
 The article involved many people in coal
industry in Queensland and NSW. It also
involved public in Queensland and NSW.
 This is happening currently in Australia.
 It happened in Queensland and NSW.

5.  The floods in Queensland hurt Queensland’s
coal industry, affected 46 mines, Queensland lost
so much money. However, people and coal
industry in NSW benefited because of the floods.
About 1-2 years Queensland will suffer, and
NSW will gain. Queensland’s misfortune is
NSW’s luck.
Low-paid workers now worse off
under Labor
 Source: The Advertiser, Daily Telegraphy
 Date: March 02, 2011
 The article is about social.
 The influence is social influence because it is about
workers and their family.
 The article involved low-paid workers and their

6. family, government-Labor.
 A UNION leader says low-paid employees have had
their wages and conditions slashed under Labor’s plan
to modernise the award system.
 This is happening currently in Australia.
 It happened in the workplaces of Australia.
 This happened because Labor’s plan has problems.
 It make workers have less money to spend, and it
affected their family’s education, their children may
have not enough money to study, it also affected
workers’ houses, they may don’t have enough money
to pay for house. It will affect their lifestyle.
Milk run faces a sour end
 Source: The Sunday Telegraph, Daily Telegraphy
 Date: February 27,2011
 The influence is social influence because it is
dealing with the customers.
 The article involved 63-year-old proprietor (Ron

7. Kelly), Kathleen Belfanti and the supermarkets.
 This is happening currently in Australia.
 It happened in the Lower Blue Mountains.
 This happened because some customers like to
have their milk delivered to their homes. It is a
niche market. It is the way milk selling used to
be 60+ years ago.
 Almost all the supermarkets started making
discounts on their milk at a lower price. And the
milk man is still selling the milk at the old price.
So the most of customers prefer cheaper milk. It
makes the milk man get less money. He has been
forced to sell bread, eggs, olive oil and even
detergent to stay in business.
Wage slashed despite Gillard’s
promise
 Source: Herald Sun, Daily Telegraphy
 Date: March 02,2011

8.  The influence is social influence because it is dealing with the
government, and the impact that it has on business and people.
 The article involved the Prime Minister (Julia Gillard), the
employees, childcare workers, aged care nurses and bar staff.
 Some of Australia’s lowest paid employees have had their
wages and conditions slashed-despite a promise by Julia
Gillard that no worker would be worse off.
 This is happening currently in Australia.
 It happened in the workplaces.
 This happened because the government has been making
workplace reforms for industrial awards. There workers have
been ignored.
 It makes workers have less money to spend, and it affected
their family, their children may have not enough money to
study, they may have not enough money to pay for a house. It
will affect their lifestyle.