How the Franklin was saved
Environmental Flows
By Bob Brown
Thirty summers ago, on 14 December, the blockade of the Franklin Dam site began. Tasmania’s Liberal government, then headed by premier Robin Gray, who once described the Franklin River as a “brown leech-ridden ditch”, had turned down a $500 million offer from prime minister Malcolm Fraser to forgo the dam. Instead Gray sent the bulldozers rumbling into the valley, and Fraser decided aga
