Twenty-five years after the Franklin River dam campaign changed Australian politics, Matthew Moore paddles down a river of memories.
Hobart's swanky Hotel Grand Chancellor is an unlikely venue for what may be the largest gathering of former prison inmates Australia has seen. They're coming from all over the country, and even from as far as Britain, participants and supporters of the Franklin River blockade that led to 1272 people being arrested and hundreds jailed, that saved the river, tore Tasmania in two and has made preservation of Australia's environment a mainstream political issue ever since.
SMH 28 Jun 2008
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