When they saved the Franklin River

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Instead of doing the household tasks I'd listed for today, I just finished reading Law's wonderful book, The River Runs Free, on the saving of the Franklin River in Tasmania ovr twenty years ago. It was an almighty battle between the 'Greenies' and the Hydro-Electric Commission dam project that almost devastated a magnificient wilderness area of Tasmania. This photo by Peter Dombrovski of Rock Island Bend was used at the time as a promotion of the protest. When it appeared as a full-page advertisement in the Herald just before the 1983 federal election, the caption was "Would you vote for a party that would destroy this?" The Franklin River was saved with federal intervention.