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unparalleled fibrePremiumAWI research proves Merino wool is the ultimate sports fibre

New research has confirmed what the Australian wool industry already knew: Merino wool has an unparalleled ability in thermal regulation, moisture control and odor resistance.

Melissa Pedelty

The Australian Ambassador to Bejing Scott Dewar, centre, and AWI staff Stephen Feighan and Emily King with the group of young Australian wool industry representatives including Mitch Rubie, Veronike Hartmeier, Ella Picker, Scott Dewar, Tom Carlon, Charlie Brumpton, Richard Branson, Rachel Martin and Tom Campbell.

Trip of a lifetimePremiumCoromandel’s Thomas Campbell visits China’s woollen mills

Great Southern woolgrower Thomas Campbell, 26, has returned from a trip of a lifetime, visiting China’s woollen mills with a group of eight young people coordinated by Australian Wool Innovation.

Bob Garnant

A fresh July shorn harvest of Serena Park wool classed into lines including ultrafine and ready to be baled up for sale during the 2025-26 season.

Ultrafine wool peaksPremiumUltrafine wool supply and values lift

Australian ultrafine woolgrowers are enjoying increased values and demand as supply lifts with drier conditions throughout the fine wool growing regions.

Bob Garnant

Westcoast Wool & Livestock wool manager Brad Faithfull and wool broker Justin Haydock.

future of non-mulesedNon-mulesed wool premiums thought to be catalyst for uptake

Australian farmers have not been in a rush to transition away from mulesing, especially in WA, but with growing premiums for non-mulesed wool this could be set to change.

Melissa Pedelty

Wool industry figureheads say the 5.7 per cent increase in the Eastern Market Indicator, year-on-year, was good news for the sector but “did not reflect the state of the industry”.

final salePremiumEOFY wool sales finished strong but not with a bang

The Australian wool industry is feeling a weight lifted after wool sales recorded a 5.7 per cent increase in price on last financial year.

Melissa Pedelty

Australia's wool selling season is under way. Inset: Endeavour Wools buyer Steve Noa

wool woesPremiumA tale of false starts for Australia’s wool market

Australia’s 2025-26 wool selling season has commenced in the positive, despite it being the smallest opening sale since AWEX records began in 1997.

Melissa Pedelty

AWN board Brendon Lunney, Rick Maybury, John Collye, and Ben Barlow. AWN chief operating officer Rick Maybury has taken a step up and into the role of the pastoral houses’ managing director and chief executive.

New BoardRick Maybury appointed new AWN chief executive

AWN has unveiled a leadership shuffle to kick off the new financial year, with Rick Maybury stepping up as managing director and chief executive after more than eight years with the business. 

Georgia Campion

Australian Wool Innovation chief executive officer John Roberts.

wool industry roadmapPremiumAWI releases strategic plan for next three years

AWI’s top boss says the company will have to make “tough choices” with its projected income at the lowest its been in more than a decade as the company unveils its roadmap for the next three years. 

Melissa Pedelty

AWI chairman Jock Laurie.

AWI board in shakeupPremiumAustralian Wool Innovation board shakeup

Jock Laurie and Emma Watson will step down from the Australian Wool Innovation board come November, while NSW-based vet Michelle Humphries has put her hand up for re-election. 

Bob Garnant

WA Shearing Industry Association president Darren Spencer.

here to stayPremiumWA wool industry positive about the future

The message of the WA Shearing Industry Association annual general meeting was clear — the wool industry is strong and here to stay.

Melissa Pedelty

Former Central Wheatbelt MLA Mia Davies

fight onPremiumMia Davies encourages sheep industry to continue its fight

Former leader of the opposition Mia Davies says the sheep industry needs to utilise the momentum of the Keep the Sheep movement to safeguard the future of the industry.

Melissa

WACSA president Len Simmons with life membership recipient Gail Simmons and Wes Baker.

WACSA awardsPremiumWACSA awards: Gail Simmons honoured with life membership

WA Competition Shearing Association member Gail Simmons honoured with life membership for more than 20 years of service. 

Bob Garnant

The WACSA 2024-25 circuit open shearing top point winners included Damien Boyle (1st), Luke Harding (2nd), and Mark Buscumb (3rd).

WACSA winnersPremiumWA Competition Shearing Association circuit winners

WA shearers and woolhandlers were recognised for their excellence during the WA Competition Shearing Association’s 2024-25 show circuit held across the State by supportive sponsors and volunteers.

Bob Garnant

Rhodes Pastoral farm manager Michael Wright, The Livestock Collective director Holly Ludeman, AWI director Neil Jackson, Sheep Producers chair Bindi Murray, WA WoolTag chairman Chris Patmore, and SMBAWA president Grantl Mullan.

WASIA AGMPremiumWASIA AGM: Record crowd draws strength

WA shearing contractors, shearers and industry representatives gathered to share insight into the industry at the WA Shearing Industry Association annual general meeting.

Bob Garnant

Shearer Carl Green at work with the Spencer Shearing Services team from Lake Grace.

Sheep numbersPremiumEastern Wheatbelt shearers do it tough

Eastern Wheatbelt shearers are among the hardest hit across the State as declining sheep numbers start to flow through but the full impact is still “too soon to tell”.

Melissa Pedelty

In Australia, milk production is expected to shrink in the upcoming 2025-26 season to 8.2 billion litres — a 2-3 per cent decline.

dairy outlookPremiumGlobal dairy prices fail to raise producer confidence

Recent global dairy commodity price rises are making headlines but in Australia, seasonal conditions and higher input costs continue to put pressure on the country’s third-largest rural industry.

Melissa Pedelty

Westcoast Wools & Livestock wool manager Brad Faithfull.

positive sentimentPremiumWool broker Brad Faithfull says WA industry is strong

WA sheep prices are soaring and so are Brad Faithfull’s hopes for the wool industry after a challenging start to the year. 

Melissa Pedelty

The Woolmark Company's 'Wear Wool, Not Fossil Fuel' campaign advertisement.

Wool campaign in spotlightPremiumAWI’s wool campaign in international spotlight

Putting wool in the international spotlight, Australian Wool Innovation’s eye-catching campaign Wear Wool, Not Waste has won a series of awards.

Bob Garnant

Australian Wool Innovation chairman Jock Laurie.

board shakeupAustralian Wool Innovation’s board gets refresh in November

Australian Wool Innovation is refreshing its board for the first time in two years, with first steps already underway to fill several outgoing director positions including that of chairman Jock Laurie.

Melissa Pedelty

Mia Davies is a guest speaker at the WA Shearing Industry Association’s AGM.

Merino focusWASIA hosts country stalwart Mia Davies at upcoming AGM

Former leader of the Opposition Mia Davies joins a line-up of speakers at the WA Shearing Industry Association’s general meeting this month.

Melissa Pedelty

AWN’s WA manager for wool and livestock wool manager Greg Tilbrook.

market responseAWN implements new cost-effective show floor system

AWN implements new cost-effective show floor system to more efficiently manage wool samples in WA.

Melissa Pedelty

The Eastern Market Indicator added 14 cents to close at 1,203¢/kg on April 22, its first rise in four consecutive weeks.

market recoveryAustralian wool market finds its footing after a month

The Australian wool industry is breathing a sigh of relief as the wool market makes its first meaningful recovery after four consecutive weeks of declines.

Melissa Pedelty

A sustainable fashion project is turning discarded wool into environmentally friendly threads. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

AgricultureFashion spinning new yarns from a sheep's head to tail

Wool from the head, legs, belly and bottom of a sheep is generally considered to be of little value, but a new project is spinning it into gold.

Stephanie Gardiner

Westcoast Wool & Livestock broker Justin Haydock.

RWSRWS-certified provides premium returns amid demand spike

Global demand for Responsible Wool Standard certified wool has risen exponentially in the last six months, fetching high premiums of more than 100c/kg.

Melissa Pedelty