Event: Franklin River environmental campaign (1979 - 1983)
- From
- 1979
- To
- 1 July 1983
- Topics
- Conservation (Natural resources) and Environment
Summary
The Franklin River Dam or Gordon-below-Franklin Dam project was a proposed dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania that would have flooded large areas of the Franklin River catchment. The protest movement against the project became one of the most significant environmental campaigns in Australian history.