Article: FED: Wool growers dump marketing body over low returns


AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-1998
FED: Wool growers dump marketing body over low returns

By Kylie Walker, Stephen Spencer and Max Blenkin

CANBERRA, Dec 1 AAP - Struggling wool growers have dumped the board of their own marketing
body in an angry reaction to turmoil in the industry and low prices.

In a day of crisis for the industry, Wool Council Australia president Rod Thirkell-Johnston
resigned and was replaced by New South Wales woolgrower David Wolfenden, and Agriculture
Minister Mark Vaile announced a taskforce on wool promotion.

The move comes just months before crucial decisions by international buyers on the future
of the $4 billion industry, prompting one sacked ...

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