Internationally there are a lot of legislations making the textile industries and designers move over to these sustainable products. There is a lot of opportunity there. I would love to see the Australian textile industry and designers grab at more but it needs to start from education in the universities and TAFE, getting students to work with the resources, demand those resources and not just deal with what's easiest. That's a very difficult question to answer. We have tests and trials in growing hemp and organic cotton but those have been reduced rather than increased.
Cost is a problem and also the cost of fixing up the plant, the mills where it all happens.
So we need capital investment and if we get the government behind that we can really do something. But it requires a very concerted cohesive effort on behalf of the whole industry not just fragmented which it is at the moment.