..."sandalwood is special, as valuable, precious and unique as the beautiful Argyle diamonds mined"...
..."no one else is cultivating sandalwood in the world like us; plenty have tried but it is one of the hardest crops to grow; we know because we have learnt the hard way and made plenty of mistakes - but it also means in 10 years' time we will have the dominant share of global supply and it will be Australian-grown"...
..."the beauty of sandalwood is that so many people and markets are desperate to buy it"...
..."sandalwood in the wild is disappearing - it is now a criminal offence to steel the valuable tree (a slightly different species to Indian sandalwood) from the Australian bush without a harvesting licence - leaving Wilson and TFS in the box seat to dominate global supply"...
..."and there is keen competition between the users of sandalwood for the scarce commodity." The Australian...