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News Archive - 2008

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Date	Newsletter	Read More
28 Oct 2008	Change AWI leadership or more of the same	View
	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...
13 Oct 2008	AWI admits conducting “unlawful” animal research	View
	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...
30 Sep 2008	AWI silver bullet “painless” research conducted on dead sheep	View
	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’...
08 Sep 2008	Fletcher must lead Australian wool innovation	View
	The Australian Wool Growers Association (AWGA) is calling for popular Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) Director Roger Fletcher to lead the AWI Board as Chairman...
24 Aug 2008	Apology	View
	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...
24 Jun 2008	Proposed AWEX national mulesing declaration must be changed	View
	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)...
07 Apr 2008	AWI taskforce bunglers to speak at IWTO	View
	The Australian Wool Growers Association (AWGA) is warning woolgrowers that Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) is again using growers’ hard earned levies to send the wrong people to speak with wool’s customers, at the upcoming International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO) conference...
2008	Bales of hay head for Hollywood	View
	GIVEN what mulesing has done for the Australian wool industry in recent years, the decision to place wool products in a Hollywood movie called How To Lose Friends And Alienate People sounds ominous. Although Australia dominates the global wool trade, co-ordinated wool promotion has almost disappeared since growers first voted to pay a levy of sixpence on each bale in 1936 to promote the product internationally.