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14 December 1982. A small number of activists converge in the remote south-west wilderness of Tasmania to set up a blockade. Their mission: to save the majestic Franklin River — or what Premier Robin Gray calls a ‘leech ridden ditch’ — from being dammed as part of a huge hydro-electric project. In the following months, the resistance snowballs with 6,000 joining the blockade and over 1,100 arrests.
 

 

As both sides dig in, the epic struggle goes nationwide, swinging a federal election and going all the way to the High Court.

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Eventually — against all odds — the wilderness is protected. A new environmental consciousness awakens in the Australian psyche.

 

This is the definitive story of the seven-year campaign to save the Franklin River — the most significant non-violent environmental movement in Australian history.