Year 9 Economics and Business Unit
Course outline for Year 9 HASS unit on Economics and Business.
Direction of Trade
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Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. (2024). Australia's trade in goods and services by top 15 partners. https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/australias-goods-and-services-by-top-15-partners-2023.pdfTwo-way trading partners, export markets and import sources.
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Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. (n.d.). Australia's trade through time. https://www.dfat.gov.au/publications/minisite/tradethroughtimegovau/site/index.htmlThis website documents milestones in Australia’s trading history. Snapshot historical information is provided on trade prior to Federation in 1901 and then on a decade-by-decade basis from 1900 to the present.
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International Monetary Fund. (2024, October 26). Direction of trade statistics (DOTS).https://data.imf.org/?sk=9d6028d4-f14a-464c-a2f2-59b2cd424b85&sid=1515619375491Interactive charts showing import and export statistics by selected country. Select year at the bottom of the chart.
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Observatory of Economic Complexity. (n.d.). Australia. https://oec.world/en/profile/country/aus?yearlyTradeFlowSelector=flow0Interactive graphs showing Australia's imports and exports and trading partners.
Trade Shifts
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Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. (2014, December). Fifty years of Australia’s trade. https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/fifty-years-of-Australias-trade.pdfThis article analyses changes in the composition of Australia’s trade from the inaugural 1963-64
edition to today. It explores the overall trends and growth of import and export trade, the shifts in the countries we trade with and the commodities we trade.
Composition of Trade - Exports
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Trading Economics. (n.d.). Australia exports by country. https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/exports-by-countryThis page displays an interactive table with Australia Exports By Country in U.S. dollars, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade.
Composition of Trade - Imports
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Trading Economics. (n.d.). Australia imports by country. https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/imports-by-countryThis page displays an interactive table with Australia Imports By Country in U.S. dollars, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade.