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About this Podcast:
Revisit the biggest environmental movement Australia has ever seen: the 1982 Franklin River Blockade. This story is nuts. Missing people, death threats, savage political moves, young people flooding into Tasmania to put their bodies in front of bulldozers. Host Jo Lauder investigates how this movement beat the odds and came to inspire a new generation of environmental activists that have shaped Australian politics through to today.
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What is Dig about?
Revisit the biggest environmental movement Australia has ever seen: the 1982 Franklin River Blockade. This story is nuts. Missing people, death threats, savage political moves, young people flooding into Tasmania to put their bodies in front of bulldozers.
What has Dig covered recently?
Recent episodes include "PRESENTS, Mushroom Case Daily: The trial begins" (2 May 2025, 3 minutes), "INTRODUCING, The Weather That Changed Us" (15 December 2024, 4 minutes), and "BONUS 2 | The Palawa perspective: Michael Mansell" (30 May 2023).
How often does Dig publish?
Dig publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 28 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Dig?
Booking probability for Dig is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Dig requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Dig's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch Dig?
The strongest fits for Dig are Environmental Agencies. Dig has a history audience.
About the host
Dig is a history podcast with 28 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Dec 15, 20244 minS0<p>Australia is a wild continent with some of the most intense weather on the planet. From massive bushfires to severe cyclones and devastating flooding; extreme weather is becoming part of our everyday lives. How do we...
- May 30, 2023—S3
<p>The Franklin campaign isn't just an environmental conservation story, it's also a story about Aboriginal heritage.</p><p>Tasmanian Palawa man, activist and lawyer Michael Mansell talks to Piia Wirsu about this...
- May 30, 202329 minS3
<p>Christine Milne is a name synonymous with the Greens in Australia, and for her, like so many others, her environmental career began after she was arrested at the Franklin blockade.</p><p>In this extended interview...
- May 7, 202335 minS3
<p>The Franklin river's fate all comes down to a legal challenge between state and federal powers.</p><p>In the final episode of Saving the Franklin: the moment this so-called wilderness war all came to an end.</p>
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- May 7, 202332 minS3
<p>In this episode of Saving the Franklin, scenes on the West Coast get uglier and uglier, and the campaigners turn to the mainland for support as a Federal election looms. </p>
- May 7, 202334 minS3
<p>In this episode of Saving the Franklin, thousands of protesters fly into the sleepy town of Strahan to prepare for the biggest moment in the campaign: the blockade.</p><p>An army of national media descend, and the...
- Apr 30, 202336 minS3
<p>The campaigners had painted the Franklin River as an untouched natural wonder, a place free from human interference: a wilderness.</p><p>But the rediscovery of a cave along the Franklin throws everything into...
- Apr 30, 202339 minS3
<p>The Franklin Dam proposal symbolised a lifeline to struggling communities on Tasmania's West Coast, recovering from the end of a mining era. Yet for environmentalists, it symbolised destruction and greed.</p><p>In...
- Apr 30, 202334 minS3
<p>The fight to save the Franklin River started in a totally different part of Tasmania's wilderness: with a proposal to dam the paradise inland beach of Lake Pedder. In this episode of Saving the Franklin, a mystery...
- Apr 15, 20233 minS3
<p>Australia's biggest-ever environmental battle was over a wild river in a remote part of Tasmania: the Franklin. Protesters flooded in from all over Australia to stop the Franklin River from being dammed for...
- Sep 4, 202233 minS2
<p>For the first time since taking the stand at the Fitzgerald Inquiry, Katherine James (not her real name) has decided to speak publicly. In this exclusive interview, Katherine describes how she went from a teenage...
Episode #7
Bonus - Sirens Are Coming | New leads
Jul 27, 20221 minS2<p>There have been some exciting developments since we published Sirens Are Coming, so stay tuned to this feed for further episodes. In the meantime, if you have material or information you believe is relevant to the...
- Jun 6, 202240 minS2
<p>The Rat Pack has its day of reckoning: The Fitzgerald Inquiry. Katherine James is key to exposing the corruption that's infiltrated the Queensland police force for the last forty years, but the cost of speaking out...
- Jun 6, 202238 minS2
<p>Fresh criminal networks emerge and flood Brisbane's streets, in an era known as the New Joke. A determined young hustler, Katherine James, rises through the ranks to become a trusted manager and confidante to some of...
- Jun 6, 202236 minS2
<p>A new generation of madams and sex workers begin to find their place in the Sunshine State. An enterprising Simone Vogel stands out in the crowd, until she disappears.</p>
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03 | Sirens Are Coming – The Fallout
Jun 6, 202231 minS2<p>Just when the Rat Pack look set to crumble, Shirley Brifman is found dead. Meanwhile Dorothy Edith Knight, fresh from taking down Glen Hallahan in the sting operation, realises her ordeal with the police is only just...
- Jun 6, 202228 minS2
<p>In the early 1970s, The Rat Pack faced a challenge. Shirley Brifman — who lied at the National Hotel Inquiry to protect these crooked cops — would turn from their biggest ally to their greatest threat. And Dorothy...
- Jun 6, 202236 minS2
<p>In 1958, the Rat Pack were born — three dirty cops who would use bribery and extortion for the next forty years in Queensland to wield power over sex workers. Two of their early recruits were Dorothy Edith Knight...
- May 31, 20224 minS2
<p>Three crooked cops. Four courageous women. A decades-long power struggle that remains full of mysteries to this day.</p>
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