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21st December 2004 Calls for woolgrowers to urge on the side of caution over legal action against animal activists... more
19 November 2004 Hugh Nivison, Wal Merriman and Brian van Rooyen were elected to the Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI) Board of Directors at the company's Annual General Meeting... more
16th November 2004 “The Australian Wool Innovation management continues to fail woolgrowers on the important issues of marketing wool, consumer confidence and mulesing” says Australian Wool Growers Association Chairman Chick Olsson... more
14th November 2004 “Australian Wool Innovation is duty bound to ‘come clean’ over their hasty legal action and apologise to the wool industry for their non consultative approach” says Australian Wool Growers Association Chairman Chick Olsson... more
11 November 2004 A legal commentator from Melbourne University says the wool industry is using a 'novel argument', in its court proceeding against People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA... more
11 November 2004 Woolgrowers have less than a week to lodge proxy votes for this year's Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI) Annual General Meeting (AGM)... more
11 November 2004 Australian Farmers will remember with despair the Mudginberri dispute and whilst the legal principal was eventually won over a period of many years, the battle was lost with the industry at the centre of the dispute doomed. Can we allow this to happen to the wool industry?... more
9 November 2004 On behalf of Australian woolgrowers, Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI) today caused to be filed in the Federal Court of Australia an Application and Statement of Claim against People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc. (PETA)... more
8 November 2004 Australian sheep and wool industry leaders, at a meeting in Sydney today, expressed their commitment to the phasing out of the current practice of mulesing by 2010... more
4th November 2004 AWI Election Process Falters… All Results now in Doubt ...Chick Olsson, AWGA Chairman, is angered by the approach from Australian Wool Innovation to the serious breakdown of the voting process for the AWI AGM...more
4th November 2004 AWGA spearheads urgent industry action In response to the many current wool industry crises, AWGA and other industry leaders are attending an urgently convened meeting on Monday 8th next at AWI headquarters in Sydney...more
3 November 2004 Internet proxy voting withdrawn Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI) has today withdrawn Internet proxy voting for the 2004 Annual General Meeting (AGM) as a result of concerns over the security of the system... more
31st October 2004 AWGA seeks solution to Animal Rights Boycott not division ... more
22 October 2004 Woolmark declares promotion hand. Fresh from a tour of wool facilities in Europe, Woolmark chief executive Peter Wilkinson is more convinced than ever that wool needs more promotion... more
20 October 2004 Australian woolgrowers are in a fight for their lives as they try to combat the boycott of Australian merino fibre by US fashion retailer Abercrombie and Fitch because of perceived inhumane industry practices... more
19 October 2004 The radical animal welfare organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is preparing to announce more boycotts of Australian wool by United States garment retailers ...more
18th October 2004 “Wool crippled by Animal Rights Lobbyists”...more
18 0ctober 2004 Election website launched ...more
12 October 2004 Six candidates have nominated for three positions on the Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI) Board of Directors, to be elected at the company's Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 19 November...more
12 September 2004 The Australian Wool Growers Association today has called on wool agri politicians to distance themselves and their organisations from the forthcoming Australian Wool Innovation Board elections...more
27 July 2004 The recent AWI board announcement of a $20 million spending
package over 4 years aimed at increasing consumer demand in the short
term has been welcomed by the Australian Wool Growers Association...more
13 July 2004 As AWI had indicated, there was $68 million of unallocated
grower funds, an opportunity existed to urgently approach the issue of
marketing of current wool products...more
12 July 2004 $68 Million Surplus Funds available to market wool…says
AWGA.
AWGA requested to develop Marketing Plan...more
25 June 2004 Forecast Australian shorn wool production for the 2004/05 season has been revised up to 500 million kilograms (mkg) greasy from the 470mkg predicted in March 2004...more
14th June 2004 “Time for action on creating demand for Wool” The Australian Wool Growers Association today has suggested it is now the time to address the issue of creating demand for wool...more
Thursday 10th June 2004 New leader for Australian Wool Growers Association...more
Meet Chick Olsson. An Interview with David Everist...more
9 June 2004
Ram Power Coordinator Ian Rogan to lead AWI on-farm R&D...more
13 April 2004 Wool producers need an accurate system for showing the prices paid for wool and the NSW Farmers' Association is calling on Australian Wool Handlers (AWH) to reverse its decision to withhold sale room data...more
10 March 2004 Sheep producers in OJD low prevalence areas are being encouraged to have their say on the future management of ovine Johne's disease (OJD) by voting on whether they want to establish an “Exclusion Area” (EA) for sheep trading... more
4 March 2004 Funding from AWI is helping to overcome a problem that has plagued efforts to eradicate virulent footrot in Australia... more
27 Februray 2004 An enhanced ABARE system for predicting farm performance
(ABARE eReport 04.6) has been released ... more
17 February 2004 The Australian Wool Growers Association, AWGA, today welcomed the finalisation of the long drawn out Senate Inquiry into Australian Wool Innovation Pty Limited however the AWGA was disappointed to find that the report tabled contained a supplementary or dissenting report...more
9 February 2004 The off and on again approach to the Shear Express Mobile wool harvesting system adopted by the management of Australian Wool Innovation is a disgrace says the Australian Wool Growers Association. (AWGA)...more
3 February 2004 The Australian Wool Growers Association believe the future
of Shear Express should be revisited...more
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