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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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Signup to Generate a PitchRevisit 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.
Dig — Saving The Franklin is hosted by ABC Australia. The show has published 32 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "PRESENTS, Unravel: Blood on the Tracks" (23 October 2025, 4 minutes), "PRESENTS, Mushroom Case Daily: The trial begins" (2 May 2025, 3 minutes), and "INTRODUCING, The Weather That Changed Us" (15 December 2024, 4 minutes).
Dig — Saving The Franklin publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 32 episodes.
Booking probability for Dig — Saving The Franklin is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Dig — Saving The Franklin requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Dig — Saving The Franklin's contact route on record: verified email.
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ABC Australia hosts Dig — Saving The Franklin, a history podcast with 32 episodes published.
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<p>Just outside Australia's country music capital, a young man's body is found on the train tracks, surrounded by shattered Christmas presents and discarded wrapping paper. For decades, the mystery has haunted Tamworth...
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<p>The long-awaited trial of Erin Patterson has begun. The ABC's Mushroom Case Daily podcast is your eyes and ears in the courtroom. Follow the podcast to make sure you don't miss a second of what's sure to be one of...
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<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...
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<p>Norm Sanders was considered an outsider when he entered the Tasmanian parliament during the Franklin era. He was American, a conservationist, and a member of the Australian Democrats. </p><p>In this interview, Norm...
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<p>The Lake Pedder campaign changed the course of a young Kevin Kiernan's life. His passion for the Tasmanian landscape saw him go from schoolboy activist to studying geomorphology and rediscovering Kutakina...
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<p>Lisa Yeates was on the water in one of the most iconic scenes from the Franklin River blockade: that moment the boat towing a bulldozer broke through a line of protesters floating on rafts.</p><p>But she was also...
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<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...
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<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...
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<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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<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>
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<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...
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<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...
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<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...
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<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...
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<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...
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<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...
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<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...
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<p>Thirty-five years after the Fitzgerald inquiry, sex workers in Queensland face a different kind of intimidation from police: entrapment. Producer Cheyne Anderson investigates how things have changed since the Rat...
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<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...
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<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...
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Tasmanian Palawa man, activist and lawyer, Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania
Australian Democrats
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