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Revisit the biggest environmental movement Australia has ever seen: the 1982 Franklin River Blockade. This story is nuts. Missing people, death threats,... more

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Episodes

INTRODUCING — The Weather That Changed Us

Australia is a wild continent with some of the most intense weather on the planet. From massive bushfires to severe... more

15 Dec 2024 · 3 minutes
BONUS 2 | The Palawa perspective: Michael Mansell

The Franklin campaign isn't just an environmental conservation story, it's also a story about Aboriginal heritage. Tasmanian Palawa man, activist and... more

30 May 2023 ·
BONUS 1 | ‘Just keep going’: The persistent protestor, Christine Milne

Christine Milne is a name synonymous with the Greens in Australia, and for her, like so many others, her environmental... more

30 May 2023 · 29 minutes
06 | West Coast shockwaves; a new era for politics and protest

The Franklin river's fate all comes down to a legal challenge between state and federal powers. In the final episode of... more

07 May 2023 · 34 minutes
05 | Threats, accusations and a Federal election

In this episode of Saving the Franklin, scenes on the West Coast get uglier and uglier, and the campaigners turn... more

07 May 2023 · 32 minutes
04 | 'All we had was our bodies': The blockade begins

In this episode of Saving the Franklin, thousands of protesters fly into the sleepy town of Strahan to prepare for... more

07 May 2023 · 33 minutes
03 | Secret cave: a game-changing rediscovery no one expected

The campaigners had painted the Franklin River as an untouched natural wonder, a place free from human interference: a wilderness. But... more

30 Apr 2023 · 35 minutes
02 | The battle lines: 'Greenies' vs workers

The Franklin Dam proposal symbolised a lifeline to struggling communities on Tasmania's West Coast, recovering from the end of a... more

30 Apr 2023 · 39 minutes
01 | A mystery in paradise, before the Franklin River fight

The fight to save the Franklin River started in a totally different part of Tasmania's wilderness: with a proposal to... more

30 Apr 2023 · 34 minutes
INTRODUCING — Saving The Franklin

Australia's biggest-ever environmental battle was over a wild river in a remote part of Tasmania: the Franklin. Protesters flooded in... more

15 Apr 2023 · 3 minutes
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