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.
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A solo rafting journey down Australia's Franklin River serves as the backdrop to recount the country's most pivotal environmental struggle to preserve the river from a hydroelectric dam project in the 1980s.
