40 years ago, protesters were celebrated for saving the Franklin River. Today they could be jailed for months
- Written by: Piero Moraro, Lecturer in Criminology, Edith Cowan University
Peter Dombrovskis/National Library of Australia/WikimediaThe 1982 campaign to stop the building of Tasmania’s Franklin River dam was a defining moment in the history of Australia’s social movements. Those events are now being recounted in the documentary Franklin, screening throughout the country.
Franklin tells how thousands of...