• The Gordon-below-Franklin Dam (or simply Franklin Dam) project was a proposed dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania, Australia, that was never constructed...
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  • Commission to construct a dam on the Gordon River, downstream from the Franklin River, that led to the Franklin Dam controversy. The group evolved from...
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    can be traced to early environmental movement in Australia, the Franklin Dam controversy, the Green bans, and the nuclear disarmament movement. The party...
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    Tasmanian rivers due to the Franklin Dam controversy. Shortly after leaving his post as Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land, Franklin revisited a cairn on...
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    government of Australia and the Tasmanian government during the Franklin Dam controversy, and expanded in 1989 following the Helsham Inquiry, a decision...
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    hydro-electric dam on the Gordon River, below its confluence with the Franklin River, in Tasmania's rugged south-west region. The dam would have flooded...
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  • that was passed by the Australian Labor Party in response to the Franklin Dam controversy. As stated at the top of the bill, it is "An Act to make provision...
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    The Wilderness Society's campaigns have included: the Franklin river (Franklin Dam controversy) stopping logging in old growth forests preventing destruction...
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  • election of the Whitlam government and the period following the Franklin Dam controversy, Braddon became a relatively safe seat for the Liberal Party. In...
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  • Campaign for gay rights. During the Franklin Dam controversy he was jailed for three weeks for his involvement in anti-dam protests. Slicer was admitted to...
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