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The Gordon-below-Franklin Dam (or simply Franklin Dam) project was a proposed dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania, Australia, that was never constructed.The movement that eventually led to the project's cancellation became one of the most significant environmental campaigns in Australian history.
Commonwealth v Tasmania (popularly known as the Tasmanian Dam Case) [1] was a significant Australian court case, decided in the High Court of Australia on 1 July 1983. The case was a landmark decision in Australian constitutional law , and was a significant moment in the history of conservation in Australia .
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A fact from Franklin Dam controversy appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 April 2004. The text of the entry was as follows: The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know ... that the site of the Franklin Dam was blockaded for seven months before its construction was halted by the High Court of Australia ?
The river system has been steeped in controversy: During the recent historic Western drought that dried up the Klamath Basin, an intense water war pitted local farmers against Indigenous tribes ...