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The Australian Wool Board was an Australian Government statutory board that existed in its first phase between May 1936 and January 1945; in its second phase between June 1945 and June 1953; and in its third and final phase, between May 1963 and December 1972.
The AWB was founded in 1939 to regulate the wheat market after the excesses of the Great Depression.The single desk dates to this period. This type of arrangement was not unique to Australia, as the Canadian Wheat Board was created in 1935 in a similar fashion (but its history dates back to an earlier wheat marketing board created during World War I, and also includes the experience of ...
Marcella (and sometimes Bruno) spun wool from her own sheep, combined it with other wool yarns, and created an individual weave that received a gold medal award from the Australian Wool Board. [12] [27] One of her first commissions at Picton was for curtains for the local Camden Hospital, woven in cotton. [17]
In 1963, Kevin in association with the Australian Wool Board, was instrumental in the development of the revolutionary Tally-Hi shearing technique, and went on to supervise the training of this technique throughout Australia. The Tally-Hi shearing technique reduced the time taken to shear a sheep by approximately 30 seconds.
In March of 1940 an exhibition of their hand-woven fabrics at Hotel Australia was opened by then-Prime Minister Robert Menzies. [13] Their displays appeared the Royal Show in Melbourne as part of the Australian Wool Board's Wool Court, with their creation being chosen by Governor Sir Winston Dugan to present as a gift to the Premier. [14]
In 1959, she played an important role in the inaugural Australian Fashion Awards. Jobbins subsequently left Blunden Advertising and worked directly for the Australian Wool Board from 1964 until 1972 when she left to publish a tourism magazine called, "Australia for Players and Stayers.
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics; Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics; Australian Grains Genebank; Australian Organic Farming and Gardening Society; Australian PlantBank; Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service; Australian Society of Soil Science Incorporated; Australian Wool Board; Australian Wool ...
After leaving parliament, he remained closely involved with the Farmers and Settlers' Association, and also became involved with the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation, Australian Pastoral Research Trust (of which he was a director), the Australian Wool Board and the Australian Wool Council, and was Australia's representative at the ...