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Australian Wool Innovation chief executive said he was delighted to be partnering with Tasmania Football Club for the launch of traditional football jumpers made from 100 per cent Australian wool.

latest linePremiumWoolmark release new 100% wool football supporter gear

Woolmark has released their latest line of football jumpers made from 100 per cent Australian wool in partnership with aspiring AFL club, Tasmania Football Club.

Melissa Pedelty

Endeavour Wool Exports wool buyer Steve Noa.

help requiredPremiumLive export ban funding shows ‘lack of respect’ for WA wool

WA wool buyer Steve Noa says the Federal Government has “zero respect” for the Australian wool industry in response to the live sheep export transition package released in early July

Melissa Pedelty

Australian Wool Innovation director Neil Jackson.

passion for woolWA farmer Neil Jackson says he ‘enjoys’ being part of AWI

Kojonup farmer Neil Jackson says he is proud of what has been achieved by AWI during his time on the board and looks forwarding to furthering the not-for-profit’s agenda over the next two years of his tenure.

Melissa Pedelty

Australian wool market has continued the positive start to the 2025-26 wool selling season, with the EMI rising 10 cents to finish at 1221c/kg, its highest level in three months.

continued growthPremiumAustralia’s wool market reaches a three month high

Australia’s wool market has reached a three-month high following renewed inquiry from Chinese buyers, sparking optimism across the industry.

Melissa Pedelty

Kojonup’s Libby Hardingham, 17, has grown up helping out on her grandparents farm and working with stud and commercial sheep on her family friend’s farm.

NATIONAL FINALISTPremiumLibby Hardingham Merino Fleece Judge national finalist

Kojonup’s Libby Hardingham has been selected to represent WA in the race to be Australia’s best young merino fleece judge in September. 

Hannah Whitehead

Australian wool.

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

Trainees at an shearing course delivered by the State Government and Australian Wool Innovation, aiming to fill labour shortages and drive Indigenous employment. Pictured at the shearing shed at the Peel Feedlot, Mundijong, in 2020.

budget cutsAWI cuts wool shearer training by half this financial year

Australian Wool Innovation has announced a 50 per cent cut to its shearer and wool handler training budget as the industry grapples with a plummeting wool production. 

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

Dyson Jones WA manager Peter Howie and AWN WA manager Greg Tilbrook present auction wool bale proceeds to RFDS community engagement co-ordinator Larr Rose and fundraising co-ordinator Kelly Haddrick.

RFDS fundraisingPremiumAWN and Dyson Jones’ charity auction takes off

Three bales of superfine Merino wool sold through the WA wool auction system raised a combined total of $6965.80 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service WA.

Bob Garnant

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