Wool price jumps ahead of industry-first Chinese New Year break
By Matt Brann
As wool growers enjoy their best prices since 2019, the market will now pause to respect China's request for a week off to celebrate Lunar New Year.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-14/wool-price-rising-ahead-of-chinese-new-year-break/106339658
This pile of 200 blankets tells the story of country WA's only wool mill
By Kate Forrester
Established in 1925, Western Australia's first and only woollen mill transformed raw wool into fabric and blankets, becoming a cornerstone of Albany's industry before closing in 2002.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-13/albany-woollen-mill-in-albany-celebrates-101-years/106322356
#WoolGrowing #RegionalCommunities #History #HumanInterest #KateForrester
Three score years and more spent to the buzz of shears
By Tim Lee
Australian shearing legend John Harris has returned to a central Victorian woolshed for the 75th year.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-15/john-harris-shearing-legacy-glengower-victoria/106009312
How a regional textile mill connected Olympians, police and fashion
By Allison Jess and Sarah Krieg
Textile manufacturing took Albury's work to the Opera House, federal parliament, the Olympics and beyond.
#TextileIndustry #History #WoolGrowing #LibrariesMuseumsandGalleries #AllisonJess #SarahKrieg
Moving to Longreach gave Art a career, good mates and a chance to save
Art Cooper was almost a year into a panel-beating apprenticeship in Brisbane when he realised it wasn't the career for him, so he packed his belongings and drove 1,300 kilometres to the outback to work as a rouseabout on sheep stations.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-22/moving-from-brisbane-to-outback-for-work-art-cooper/105897704
#Work #WoolGrowing #RuralandRemoteCommunities #HumanInterest
Remote sheep station 'turbocharged' by water supply hits the market
By Joanna Prendergast
One of Australia's largest sheep stations is listed for sale as wool and lamb prices soar.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-16/historic-madura-plains-for-sale-wa-sheep-station/105894986
#Agribusiness #SheepFarming #WoolGrowing #PropertyPrices #Water #JoannaPrendergast
Surging price restores growers confidence in Australian merino wool
By Emily Middleton, Cara Jeffery, and Lara Webster
Amid a run of price rises at Australian wool auctions, the next generation of growers say global demand and fresh confidence could mark a turning point for the fibre.
'Something lovely' emerges from exciting Australian textile experiment
By Megan Hughes
Scientists, farmers and the fashion industry collaborate to create a natural fabric that is both woven and knitted, low on emissions and set to shake up how we think about clothing.
#TextileIndustry #Fashion #CottonGrowing #WoolGrowing #Manufacturing #MeganHughes
Wool price soars as production crashes and Chinese demand lifts
By Angus Verley and Matt Brann
Australian wool prices lifted sharply this week for a few reasons, including a shrinking amount of wool being produced.
#WoolGrowing #Trade #Tariffs #SheepFarming #LivestockFarming #AngusVerley #MattBrann
Red tape slows the sale of Australia's largest sheep station
By Belinda Varischetti and Joanna Prendergast
A deal has been done to sell Rawlinna Station to a UK-owned pastoral company, but six months on the WA government is yet to approve the sale.
#SheepFarming #WoolGrowing #LocalFoodSystems #Agribusiness #PropertyPrices #AgriculturalPolicy #BelindaVarischetti #JoannaPrendergast
Victoria's largest farming property hits market for first time since 2018
By Angus Verley and Timu King
Telopea Downs in the state's north-east is offered for sale on a walk-in, walk-out basis, seven years after it was purchased for $70 million.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-29/victorias-largest-farm-telopea-downs-on-market/105710830
#WoolGrowing #SheepFarming #Agribusiness #Farmers #RuralandRemoteCommunities #RealEstateIndustry #AngusVerley #TimuKing
Saved from Sunday lunch, the coloured sheep loved by the craft world
By Tim Lee
Naturally coloured wool, the brainchild of a farmer in the 1970s, is used by craft enthusiasts around the world to be fashioned into all manner of things.
Wool scouring to end in Victoria after more than 160 years
By Warwick Long, Jane McNaughton, and Justine Longmore
Victoria's last wool cleaning mill will close in Geelong next month, after a merger with the only other remaining wool scour in country.
#TextileIndustry #Manufacturing #WoolGrowing #RegionalCommunities #WarwickLong #JaneMcNaughton # #JustineLongmore
Wool scouring to end in Victoria after more than 160 years
By Warwick Long, Jane McNaughton, and Justine Longmore
Victoria's last wool cleaning mill will close in Geelong next month, after a merger with the only other remaining wool scour in country.
#TextileIndustry #Manufacturing #WoolGrowing #RegionalCommunities #WarwickLong #JaneMcNaughton # #JustineLongmore
