SA: SA Farmers welcome AWRAP no confidence motion

AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-1998
SA: SA Farmers welcome AWRAP no confidence motion

ADELAIDE, Dec 1 AAP - The South Australian Farmers Federation has welcomed the success of
a no confidence motion in the Australian Wool Research and Promotion (AWRAP) board.

Federation wool and meat section chairman Ian Rowett said the motion, carried at AWRAPs
annual meeting in Goulburn and leading to the dumping of the wool marketing body board today,
gave Australian woolgrowers a chance to take control of the industrys future.

"This outcome gives Australian woolgrowers an opportunity to steer the industry into a
grower-controlled future," Mr Rowett said in a statement.

"It now remains essential that woolgrowers unite to ensure the best structures are
established and confidence in the industry is restored."

Mr Rowett said the federation did not see the decision as solely a replacement of the
board, but as an opportunity to constructively put forward growers views and to redirect the
industry with a more commercial approach for the future.

"The industry has been beset by disunity for too long. This opportunity to restructure the
industry must be viewed as positive and for the betterment for all Australian woolgrowers," he
said.

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