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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.