Blockade: Two weeks on the Franklin River blockade

A Photographic Diary, February/March 1983

By: Ian Wright

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Paperback | 15 November 2025

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In 1978 the Tasmanian Hydro Electric Commission announced plans to create a hydro-electric dam on the Gordon River near its junction with the Franklin River, in South West Tasmania. The dam-building proposal ultimately led to the greatest environmental protest ever seen in Australia; a protest planned and coordinated by the Tasmanian Wilderness Society. Global voices lent their support. A key element of the protest was non-violent-action to disrupt work at the dam site on the Gordon River that resulted in hundreds of protesters being arrested. A protest base was established by the Tasmanian Wilderness Society near Strahan on a property affectionately named 'Greenie Acres'.This book is a personal account, richly illustrated with original, never-before published photographs, by someone who spent two weeks at the blockade immediately prior to the Federal election in 1983 that ultimately resulted in the dam being stopped. The stunning photographs have an immediacy that enable the reader toshare in the intense experience of being part of the blockade on theGordon. Includes a foreword by Bob Brown.

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