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All of their baby clothing is made with 100% GOTS certified organic cotton. Based in Melbourne, VIC.

Organic cotton and wool textile products, including bedding and clothing. Based in Maleny, QLD.

Most of their clothing is made from hemp or bamboo, but they also use pure hemp, organic cotton, hemp cotton, hemp rayon, bamboo cotton, and soy cotton. Based in Silverwater, NSW.

Organic cotton baby and childrens clothing handpicked from the best eco-labels in Europe. Online store based in NSW.

Farm to Hanger make underwear and T-shirts from Australian grown cotton, with green-powered manufacturing, Greenfleet Carbon Offset Certified, Ethical Clothing Australia accredited production. Based in Daylesford, Victoria.

Hemp, silk, linen and cotton clothing. Based in Byron Bay NSW.

Kenana Knitters produce hand knitted toys, made by Kenyan mums. All in hand spun, hand dyed wool, and organic cotton. Dedicated to the empowerment of African women.

Denim and general apparel made from organic cotton and recycled materials. Based in Netherlands.

T-shirts made from 100% fair trade and organic certified cotton. They're made in factories in India with fair working conditions, where workers are paid a 'living wage'.

T-Shirts, clothing, bags; brands Certton, Earth Positive, Continental Clothing, Drover; all sweatshop free, 100% organic cotton. Based in Currumbin, QLD.

Fair trade and sweat-shop free, hand loomed organic cotton, thread is dyed using natural dyes, and loomed into fabric, no pesticides are used in the process of growing, dyeing and looming this fabric. Based in QLD.

Conventionally grown cotton uses more insecticides than any other single crop, a global spend of $2.6 billion each year. This is more than 10 per cent of the world's pesticides and nearly 25 per cent of the world's insecticides. Many of these are the most hazardous pesticides on the market including aldicarb, phorate, methamidophos and endosulfan. These pesticides can poison farm workers, drift into neighboring communities, contaminate ground and surface water and kill beneficial insects and soil micro-organisms. See 'Pesticides Commonly Used on Cotton' Find out about the Better Cotton Initative Find organic cotton products from companies such as Certton, Blessed Earth, Organic Embrace and Gaia Organic.

Uzbekistan is a major global cotton producer (among the top 10) and a significant exporter, with key markets including China and Bangladesh. For decades, the country relied on systemic forced labor, mobilizing 1–2 million people annually, including schoolchildren, college students, and civil servants, to harvest cotton by hand. Human rights concerns, documented by Uzbek activists and the Cotton Campaign, led to a global boycott initiated in 2010, with over 330 companies pledging not to source Uzbek cotton due to forced and child labor. The World Bank supported third-party monitoring by the International Labour Organization starting in 2015, which confirmed the elimination of systemic forced and child labor in the 2021 harvest. Consequently, the Cotton Campaign lifted the boycott in March 2022, and the U.S. removed import restrictions in September 2022. The Cotton Campaign has now shifted its focus to Turkmenistan, where state-imposed forced labor in cotton production remains widespread and systematic, with tens of thousands of public sector workers and farmers coerced into harvesting cotton under threat of penalties like job loss or land confiscation. Watch 'White Gold - the true cost of cotton' (8min video - 2008) Read about the campaign against forced labor in the cotton fields of Turkmenistan. See the open letter and call to boycott Uzbek cotton (2009). See the list of 331 companies who signed the Pledge against using products that have cotton from Uzbekistan.

Currently the only genetically engineered (GE) food crops commercially produced in Australia are cotton and canola. Both these can be labelled under 'vegetable oil' without any indication that they are GE. Processed food commonly contains GE ingredients, mainly through imported corn, soy and cottonseed oil. GE crops pose a very real threat to our food because, as living organisms, they can reproduce and spread and so once released they cannot be recalled. Their effects are irreversible. Concerns over genetically engineered (GE) food include unknown health risks, threats to biodiversity, contamination of conventional and organic crops, increase in pesticide and herbicide use, and control over our food by multinational chemical companies who legally own the patents on the technology. Look for foods labelled 'GMO free', 'GE-free', 'Not genetically modified', certified 'Organic' & 'Bio-dynamic' or items that are 'Product of Australia' (except food containing cottonseed & canola oil) Check the 'GM-Free Shopping List' for all brands guaranteed GM-free by their manufacturer (assurance they are not using GM ingredients anywhere in the food chain, including animal feed). Snapshot: What is genetically modified food, why is it controversial and how do I know if I’m eating it?

Baptist World Aid and Not For Sale's 2013 document, The Australian Fashion Report, identified that out of 128 clothing brands, 61% of companies do not know where their garments are manufactured; 76% not know where their garments are weaved, knitted and dyed; and 93% do not know where their cotton is sourced from. We recommend choosing garments that have specific sustainability features. See accredited businesses whose garments are made by local workers whose rights and working entitlements are being upheld and protected. Download the Australian Fashion Report See Travelling textiles: A sustainability roadmap of natural fibre garments report (2009)