[Pil-pc-oceania] Closure of CSIRO scour

[Fern Rainbow]

I asked Long tops (small business in geelong  that processes wool) about the closure of the scour.  They said that it's having great impact.  Their prices for scouring and carding have increased by nearly 50% from december last year, from $12 a kg to $20 a kg... I do wish that I'd got my wool processed last year :( as if I get it processed now it's going to cost almost double the price.  The closure of the scour will discourage a lot of small businesses, like myself.  It was already a fair amount, now it's just too much.  
Most farmers already just sell their wool overseas, the closure of the scour will just encourage this.  We may not see any locally processed and made garments in the near future :(
Where do your local garmet makers get their wool processed/ or their processed wool from?
Australia already doesn't have the processing facilities for other natural fibre, such as hemp, and now we are losing our processing  facilities for wool as well.
How on earth can EDAPs be enacted when we can't process our natural fibres locally?  When our clothes etc can't be made locally? And all our fibres have to go overseas to be processed.  It's ridiculous...