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Laurence Gatt is a student at Whitehouse Design in Melbourne. Laurence has provided a preview of his 2017 collection, using fabrics funded by AWET’s grant. AWET has also received story boards of grant recipients from other institutions.

Animal Production 2018 program is all about communicating leading science in improving the productivity and profitability of Australia’s livestock industries. A key component of the conference program are four prestigous Memorial Lecture presentations. These are invite-only by the conference organising…

Curtin Students, Emma Watson and Sophie Watson, display their collections in Beijing. AWET provides 25 grants each year to final year fashion students to assist them to utilise wool fabrics in their final year collections. Two of these students, Emma…

NOW OPEN The Australian Society of Animal Production, together with CSIRO Publishing, will prepare a special edition of Animal Production Science to be distributed at the Animal Production 2018 conference, 2-4 July 2018, in Wagga Wagga, NSW. The first call…

Founder of the Hub and Spoke model retires. Professor Cottle was an Associate Professor of Wool Science in the Department of Wool and Pastoral Science at the University of NSW in the 1990s. When the school was closed David worked…

Fostering innovation through the value chain The 32nd Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of Animal Production, Animal Production 2018, will take place from July 2-4 at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. The 2018 Organising Committee…

Improved access to CRC for Premium Quality Wool Resources. The Australian Wool Education Trust holds in trust the educational resources created by the CRC for Premium Quality Wool during its activities from 1993-2000. This resource collection consists of some 2500…

AWET grant recipient wins a prestigious prize. Hannah Tan, a student at UTS and one of the recipients of the 2016 AWET fashion student grant, won the Australian Fashion Fund Scholarship/Internship Prize for 2016/2017, with the collection facilitated by the…

Woolwise.com was originally developed as a resource for educators, researchers, consultants, students and other stakeholders in the wool industry. The range of devices used to visit websites has increased. Most people use PC’s, tablets and phones for this purpose. However,…

AWET provides scholarships for students attending VET colleges, studying wool and sheep. Three of these scholarships are awarded to students enrolled in Tocal College, NSW The scholarships for 2017 were awarded to Jack Finch, Meg Crouch and Kate Blair-Hickman. Each…