An up-to-date factual guide to the Australian wool industry, its animal welfare practices and advancements.
7 May - International retailers praise wool industry’s progress towards 2010
29 Apr - Perry Ellis International prepared to reconsider position on clips
28 Apr - Australian Wool and Sheep Industry Taskforce calls on retailers to rely on facts not fear
28 Apr - International Protégés Showcase Merino Wool at RAFW
18 Apr - Taskforce clarifies misinformation on clips
15 Apr - AWI launches $1.4m marketing program in Japan
15 Apr - Genetic alternatives to mulesing – new expert panel to convene
14 Apr - Industry Taskforce Presents to International Wool Textile Conference
3 Apr - Clips give 3 kilo gain (1.3Mb pdf, new window)
3 Apr - Show breeds Merino market optimism (122Kb pdf, new window)
1 Apr - WOOL, C’EST COOL!
27 Mar - Flystrike study exposes wrinkles (130Kb pdf, new window)
27 Mar - Wool will fly: Sheep CRC leader (350Kb pdf, new window)
26 Mar - Australian wool creates alliance with top Indian clothing label
26 Mar - Mulesing alternatives on show at Karoonda
26 Mar - Wool in Japanese trade celebrations
20 Mar - Progress to end mulesing by 2010 on track
19 Mar - AWI Board unanimously confirms support for industry decision to phase out mulesing
19 Mar - AWI confirms the facts
18 Mar - Clips viewed from the front line
14 Mar - AWI Chief confirms progress on alternatives to mulesing to manufacturers, brands and retailers in Hong Kong
12 Mar - ABC misreports Swedish TV mulesing program
11 Mar - Merino active wear takes off with new winter range
8 Mar - Wool and Sheep Industry Taskforce acts appropriately to protect woolgrowers
6 Mar - Mulesing soap solution closer (81Kb pdf, new window)
6 Mar - Wool - it's the new black (538Kb pdf, new window)
6 Mar - Wool wins on the catwalk (305Kb pdf, new window)
5 Mar - Woolmark launches designer award talent at the 2008 L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival
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Battling the Blowfly How AWI is helping develop a range of tools to minimise flystrike in the Australian sheep flock.
Merino Innovation hits the spot with professional technical information to explain every step in the wool pipeline.
Without flystrike prevention up to three million sheep would die in agony in a bad flystrike year!