Four decades on, has the Franklin River and those who fought to save it been forgotten?

Each year, a few hundred people tackle the eight-day journey down the wild Tasmanian rafting river. For former blockaders who helped prevent it being dammed, the trip has added poignancyGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastJeni Wallwork's recent journey down Tasmania's Franklin River was wild and treacherous but the 72-year-old trusted a splash of karma would get her through."My raft with four others capsized on the first day and we were stuck under water in the washing machine of a rapid for what seemed like a long time," she says. "I thought about my mortality in those seconds ? but should've realised that the river wouldn't take a protester!" Continue reading...