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The Latest News From the Australian Wool Industry
28 October 2008
Australian Wool Growers Association is calling for woolgrowers to use
their voting power to change the Leadership of Australian Wool Innovation
(AWI) after 6 years of industry decline...more
13 October 2008
Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) has confirmed that research on the “Silver
Bullet” mulesing alternative was carried out on live and dead sheep,
and also confirmed that trials were conducted prior to obtaining the required
animal ethics committee approval... more
30 September 2008
The Australian Wool Growers Association (AWGA) will write to the Federal
Minister for Agriculture, Tony Burke, seeking clarification of Australian
Wool Innovation’s (AWI) recent public claims about new “painless”
mulesing alternatives known as a ‘silver bullet’... more
8 September 2008
The Australian Wool Growers Association (AWGA) is calling for popular
Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) Director Roger Fletcher to lead the AWI
Board as Chairman.
Fletcher was elected to the AWI Board in November 2007 with overwhelming
national woolgrower support... more
24 August 2008
On 4 March 2008 a press release written by Martin Oppenheimer, the Chairman
of the Australian Wool Growers Association Ltd, was published on this
website about Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI’s) then Chairman,
Mr Ian McLachlan AO. Mr Oppenheimer wishes to clarify and correct certain
statements and suggestions in the press release. Mr Oppenheimer apologises
to Mr McLachlan and wishes Mr McLachlan well for his retirement after
many years of service to Australian agriculture and the wool industry...
more
24 June 2008
The Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) proposed “National Wool Declaration”
is flawed and must be changed immediately, according to the influential
woolgrower lobby group Australian Wool Growers Association (AWGA)... more
7 April 2008
The Australian Wool Growers Association (AWGA) is warning woolgrowers
that Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) is again using growers’ hard
earned levies to send the wrong people to speak with wool’s customers,
at the upcoming International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO) conference
at Beijing, China... more
24 March 2008
The mulesing issue has identified a new opportunity for wool.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept whereby organisations
consider the interests of society by taking responsibility for the impact
of their activities on customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders,
communities and the environment in all aspects of their operations...
more
17 March 2008
It’s time to adopt pain free mulesing. The belated “active
support” of pain relief by Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) Chief
Executive Craig Welsh is welcome, but not enough. AWI and their Taskforce
must prove their support by adopting pain relief with mulesing, as they
promised in the 2005 agreement with retailers... more
2007 News
15 December 2007
The influential Australian Wool Growers Association (AWGA) is urging woolgrowers
to start rebuilding the Australian sheep flock, following the recent changes
to the leadership of the Australian wool industry... more
11 December 2007
Chairmans's Letter to Members ... full letter here
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