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Mon Oct 31

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/Wikimedia

The 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...

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