Movement marks 50 years of green politics, 40 years since the Franklin Dam campaign | ABC News

Tasmania in 1982 was a state divided: There was escalating protest action against a Hydro Electric Commission plan to build a dam on the Gordon River, flooding 35 kilometres of the Franklin River in the state's south-west.

One of the key players in the campaign to stop the flooding was Bob Brown, the first green politician elected to the Tasmanian parliament.

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