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489,000
489,000 -- industry employment for Australian clothing and textiles industry (2025)
The Australian clothing and textiles industry employs more than 489,000 Australians.
- Based on industry modelling from the Australian Fashion Council
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Value
489,000
Unit
Count
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Geography
AU
Evidence Quality
B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Australian Fashion Council
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https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-seamless-scheme-and-developing-an-australian-circular-tex… ↗
Source Article
The Seamless scheme and developing an Australian circular textiles industry - The Australia Institute
The Seamless scheme and developing an Australian circular textiles industry
Every single year in Australia over 200,000 tonnes of textile waste go to landfill, and more than 100,000 tonnes are shipped overseas. Australia must somehow scale this 300,000-tonne mountain of clothing if the nation is to …
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Australian Fashion Council
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Industry modelling report from the Australian Fashion Council
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IndustryRetail
RegionAU
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Australian clothing and textiles industry: 489,000 industry employment. Source: Australian Fashion Council (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/australian-fashion-industry-489k-jobs
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