SYDNEY – 9 April, 2019 – The Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) has worked with Microsoft partner MicroChannel to develop and roll out a smartphone app and cloud ...

There's something special about the sound of blade shears clicking away in a big old shearing shed. You're transported back to a time in Australia when wool was king and shearers had plenty of work.

The Longreach 19-year-old has followed her grandfather into the shearing sheds of western Queensland, and recently became a roustabout: sweeping the wooden boards, picking up fleeces and throwing them ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. MARK COLVIN: The global animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is attacking ...

Feedback mentions the Ig Nobel prize awarded for an Australian paper on the best surface for dragging sheep to be sheared (11 October). Sheep are dragged on their rumps, not with a rope round their ...