<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>

The Franklin river's fate all comes down to a legal challenge between state and federal powers. In the final episode of Saving the Franklin: the moment this so-called wilderness war all came to an end.

06 | West Coast shockwaves; a new era for politics and protest

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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