How the battle to introduce wide combs in the shearing industry was won

Vernon Graham
Updated September 10 2019 - 11:47am, first published 10:30am
WIDE COMB WARRIOR: Blayney shearer and contractor, Robert White, led the battle to introduce wide combs into the Australian shearing industry.
WIDE COMB WARRIOR: Blayney shearer and contractor, Robert White, led the battle to introduce wide combs into the Australian shearing industry.

The push to introduce wide combs into the shearing industry in the early 1980s sparked one of the most violent chapters in Australian rural history.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

National machinery and property writer

Former editor of The Land, former Fairfax Media Agricultural Editor

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