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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
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
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 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
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The highly successful Australian Wool Growers Association is seeking
support from growers and other industry members to ensure the cultural
change it started in the wool industry in 1996 is realised.
AWGA is widely regarded as responsible for the sweeping reforms in the wool industry which led to the creation of Australian Wool Innovation as an independent, grower-owned commercial company.
However, many within the industry say the job that AWGA set out to do is unfinished as there is continued Government involvement in the industry and ongoing ownership and accountability issues to address.
The dangerously low national sheep flock numbers, insurance and workers compensation costs and the technological impact on marketing the wool clip are also important to growers and must be solved.
The AWGA has been set up on a national platform to give growers and industry members direct representation to AWI, State and Federal Governments and through the industry pipeline.
The Directors of AWGA are:
Martin Oppenheimer, Stud breeder Walcha NSW (Chair) 0413 580 040
Charles Olsson, Commercial wool grower, Goulburn NSW
Sam Stephens, Commercial Grower, Coolah NSW
Will Crozier, Commercial Grower, Casterton Vic Retired January 2007
Peter Laird, Commercial wool grower, Hillston NSW
Shane Edwards Stud Merino Breeder, Quairading. WA
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