WASIA has organised a full and informative day for our 2019 mid year member meeting with a focus on Employment & Training: Employment session – an update on the things you need to know as an employer including details of the award and changes to employment requirements. Lots of time to ask all your questions. FacilitatedRead more
WA Shearing Industry Association (WASIA) in partnership with Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) have launched two new shearing safety surveys to assist in shed safety training. WASIA President, Darren Spencer highlighted that shearing is a high-risk occupation. “Our goal is to use the information from the surveys to develop programs for those who work in shearingRead more
Over the last 6 weeks of Graduation Ceremonies at the WA Colleges of Agriculture, WASIA have awarded their six annual $500 scholarships. These have been provided by the WA Shearing Industry Association Inc (WASIA) to WA College of Agriculture students since November 2002 in the memory of Neville Munns. Neville Munns was former CEO ofRead more
If you are looking to undertake shearer training, or to employ a training graduate we have all the contact details of the training organisations in WA. Shearing Training contact pageRead more
Greg has been in the shearing industry for 25 years starting of as a woolpresser and then graduating to a shearer. With his wife he decided 11 years ago to have a go at contracting and started off with 1 team and our business has grown over this period to running 5 or 6 teams.Read more
Rylington Park Institute of Agriculture is running Shearing Schools from 16-20 April and 30 April to 4 May starting on Mondays at 12:00pm and finishing at 11:00am on Friday. Participants need to bring their own bedding, clothes and toiletries and the rest is all provided through AWI funding. The Schools are for shearing and wool handling and for those that know nothing toRead more
As a farmer’s son, Brian needed to earn some extra money, so he started shearing around 1975 and went full time when the farm was sold. Brian started contracting around 1978 when the guy he was shearing with went back to his farm and Brian took over his little shearing run. Brian joined the AssociationRead more