When Tasmania's Hydro-Electric Commission planned to build a dam on the Franklin River, the Wilderness Society mobilised to protect it. Franklin recounts this seminal environmental protest through the eyes of Oliver Cassidy, who retraces the journey on the World Heritage-listed river taken some 40 years before by his late activist father.
Franklin
The story of Australia's most significant environmental battle to save the remote Franklin River from being dammed by a hydroelectric project in the 1980s, as told through the lens of a current-day solo rafting adventure.
