Animal welfare groups and a rural lobby group have attacked the decision by the Australian wool industry to abandon plans to phase out the controversial practice of mulesing. Mulesing involves cutting ...

Wool growers face hefty fines for failing to treat mulesed sheep for pain relief, under new animal cruelty regulations drafted by the Victorian Government. Under the draft regulations released for ...

Mandatory pain relief when mulesing sheep is one of the measures under new laws that aim to better protect against cruelty of ...

Mulesing sheep without administering pain relief will be an offence in NSW, under new animal welfare laws introduced this ...

Textile Exchange (TE) has updated the drafted Responsible Wool Standard (RWS). In TE’s second stakeholder review of the RWS, clothing brands told the nonprofit they would ban the standard if it ...

Following months of deliberations, the Australian Wool Exchange has decided not to make any changes to the National Wool Declaration’s (NWD) current definitions for non-mulesed and mulesed wool. The ...

Lamb mulesing as depicted by a video produced by animal rights group, PETA. Debate about the controversial practice of mulesing is set to be reignited again with prominent animal rights group, People ...

Humane Society International (HSI) Australia has launched the latest edition of its ‘Better Wool Guide’ which features over 200 brands that are part of the growing movement to phase out the ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Australian Wool Growers Association chairman Martin Oppenheimer said he expected Australian ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. An animal rights group has ramped up its campaign against the wool industry's practice of mulesing ...