Wool Industries Australia Inc (WIA) is an association of Australian organisations engaged in the production, selling, merchanting, processing, spinning, weaving, testing and research & development of wool and allied fibres.

Nominations open for 2020 Australian Wool Industry Medal Sheep Central, March 20, 2020 2019 Australian Wool Industry Medal recipient Michael Blake, left, with FAWO chairman David Michell. NOMINATIONS have opened for the prestigious Australian Wool Industry Medal to be awarded in August this year. Nominations can be from or for people working or who have worked in any sector of the wool supply chain and must be received by the close of business on 1 May, 2020. Medal recipients will be awarded by…

Michael and Cathy Blakes’ wool bale sells for charity A specially decorated wool bale donated by ­Michael and Cathy Blake of Ballyglunin Park, at Hamilton, has been auctioned for charity. NICOLA BELL, The Weekly Times March 10, 2020 10:38am The specially decorated wool bale was donated by ­Michael and Cathy Blake of Ballyglunin Park, at Hamilton, with all proceeds going to the Michael Manion Wool Industry Foundation. The wool, which was paddock grown and shorn at 8½ months, had a fibre diameter…