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http://www.theeducationshop.com.au disappearance, filmmaker Scott Mill- wood undertook a quest to discover the truth. He journeyed into the land- scapes and eccentric communities of , painting a portrait of an in- spirational woman whose environmen- tal values still resonate today. Brenda’s story, her tenacity and determination, tell us a great deal about the modern environmental movement. And her intense sense of connection to place must act as inspiration for all of us to cherish the precious wild spaces left around us.

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Whatever Happened to ? (Scott Millwood, 2008) focuses on a courageous woman who died fighting for a cause she believed in. It is, more- We live in a world where we’re told everything exists to over, an intriguing film about personal be bought and sold. But these people [Brenda and Max] secrets, family scandals, lies, myths prove the lie of the age. They proved that in fact they and memories, and it features a large couldn’t be bought and sold, and they lost their lives to and colourful cast of characters, each it. And we understand that loss is telling us these things with their own theory or conspiracy. The deeply mysterious nature of this are as important as life itself. And at that point they have tale allows students to hone their skills an extraordinary and unstoppable power and it doesn’t of critical analysis, examining people’s matter how the politics of the day may be arraigned arguments and opinions while looking against them, and it doesn’t matter how shrilly cry the for bias and hidden agendas. armies that propagandise over them. In the end, the Whatever Happened to Brenda Hean? testament of their lives and the manner of their deaths has relevance to junior and middle become more powerful than any of that, and what they secondary school students in the stood for endures and becomes the great truth of their Key Learning Areas of English; Media times. – Richard Flanagan Studies; Environmental Studies; Sci- ence; and SOSE/HSIE/Humanities (Studies of Society and Environment/ Human Society in its Environment). Introduction The plane disappeared, apparently not long after take-off. No bodies or The main aim of this guide is to n 1972, Brenda Hean was engaged wreckage were ever found. There was present a wide variety of teaching in a fight to save Tasmania’s beauti- no official inquiry. Persistent allega- and learning opportunities based on Iful from damming for tions of sabotage and a cover-up the film, ranging in sophistication and hydro-electricity. With 57-year-old pilot remain to this day. Mystery shrouds complexity. Teachers are encouraged Max Price, she set off in a Tigermoth her death, but what is clear is that to pick and choose tasks that suit on a flight to Canberra to promote the Brenda was a passionate and commit- the particular interests and abilities of cause. Hean planned to meet with ted spokesperson and advocate for their students – not to work through federal parliamentarians and she and her community and local environment. the guide systematically. Teachers Price were going to write in the skies She was a woman of great integrity may choose to present a selection of above Canberra, ‘Save Lake Pedder’ and courage, and her disappearance, appropriate activities as a matrix, with SCREEN EDUCATION – as Greens Senator puts at the age of sixty-two, was a tragic students given the responsibility to it, ‘to emblazon in the skies this call loss for all who knew her and for the complete a set number of tasks. Most to to say a most remarkable environmental cause she had dedi- of the activities target literacy out- frontline part of its heritage was threat- cated herself to. comes: speaking and listening, read- ened with tragedy in Tasmania’. ing and writing. There are also activi- Some thirty-five years after Hean’s ties that address film analysis, ICT and 2 creative thinking. NB: Throughout the ment (the ‘new Lake Pedder’) is guide, a series of challenging state- included within the Tasmanian Wilder- ments are presented as quotes. These ness World Heritage Area (TWWHA) can be used in a number of ways: as because the International Union for the focus for discussion, debate or the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ex- oral presentations; or as a direction for presses hope for eventual restoration further research, analysis or creative of the natural Lake Pedder. writing tasks. Teachers are advised that the film includes some coarse 1993: Scientific studies reveal that language. beneath fifteen metres of water, the features of the Lake Pedder area – in- General Themes cluding beach, dunes and the channel of the Serpentine River – are intact • the search for truth; the unstable, under a few millimetres of silt. uncertain, subjective nature of truth; the slippery relationship be- 1994: The General Assembly of the tween truth, myth and storytelling IUCN, meeting in Buenos Aires, • the unreliable nature of memory passes a resolution calling for the • the elusive nature of history and 1946: The first light plane landing is restoration of the lake. the difficulties in attempting to made on the three-kilometre beach. reconstruct or recover it 1994: Comalco aluminium smelter, • the history of the environmental 1955: The Lake is the heart and focus Tasmania’s largest bulk electricity movement of the newly gazetted Lake Pedder consumer, closes the third potline at • the conflict between industry and National Park. its Bell Bay smelter. Tasmania’s power the environment surplus reaches 130 MW. • a portrait of Tasmania 1967: Premier announces • the failures of government that development of the Middle 1994: Pedder 2000 campaign is • the possibility of environmental Gordon Power Scheme will ‘result in launched in with national and reconciliation some modification to the Lake Pedder international expressions of support. National Park’. A History of Lake 1994: Robin Gray, Minister for Energy Pedder 1968: The Lake Pedder National Park in Tasmania’s Liberal Government is incorporated into the South West expresses unqualified opposition. 1 million years ago: Glacial outwash National Park. blocks the flow of the Serpentine 1995: A symposium held at the Uni- River. A unique glacial lake is formed 1972: The world’s first Green Party, versity of Tasmania concludes that which is nine square kilometres in the (UTG) is restoration of Lake Pedder is feasible. area with a beach of pink quartz sand formed to oppose the flooding of Lake three kilometres long and nearly one Pedder that will result if the proposed 2006: Basslink Interconnector, a kilometre wide in summer when the design for the Middle Gordon Power seabed electricity transmission cable, lake’s level is low. Scheme is constructed. enables Tasmania to join the National Energy Market (NEM) and ends Tas- 20,000 years ago: Aboriginal people 1972: In spite of a massive campaign mania’s total dependence on electric- live in the area and frequent the lake. of national and international opposi- ity generated on the island. tion, Lake Pedder is flooded to aug- 1835: Surveyor John Wedge names ment by 60 MW the electricity gener- (Source: ) Justice of the colony (then named Station. Van Diemen’s Land), Sir John Lewes Activities & Pedder. 1973: The Tasmanian Government Discussion Topics refuses an offer from the Common-

1874: Landscape painter William wealth Government to fund a simple Context SCREEN EDUCATION Piguenit visits and paints at Lake Ped- alternative version of the Middle der. Gordon scheme that would enable the Tasmania, 1972: A small, introverted Lake to be saved. island community is divided between 1898: A branch of the the goal of industrial progress and track reaches Lake Pedder. 1982: The Huon-Serpentine impound- the vision of a pristine environment. 3 A unique environmental wonder, the alpine Lake Pedder, is on the verge of destruction by the largest hydro- electric power scheme in the southern hemisphere. Following the Second World War, Tasmania was convinced that it could become a global industrial centre through the provision of cheap hydro-electricity created by damming its wild rivers. The vision of the State Government to transform the island into an industrial powerhouse drove a wedge through the community. The island split into two groups destined for conflict – the industrialists and the environmentalists. (Source: Press Kit, Whatever Happened to Brenda Hean?)

Environmental Issues CREDITS Whatever Happened to Brenda Hean? tagonism between environmental- You know they say we’ve got a lot of Year of Production: 2008 ists and police. forests but at the end of the day it’s • Explore Tasmania’s special place Duration: 54 minutes 36 seconds going to run out, because as time goes in the history of Green politics in on, more trucks, more mills, more Director: Scott Millwood Australia. everything – everything gets bigger Producers: Michael McMahon & Scott • What can you find out about ‘The and towards the end the old poor little Millwood New Ethic’? ground gets smaller and then towards • What can you find out about the Editor: Bill Murphy ASE the end they say one day, ‘Oh geez, United Tasmania Group, the first we’ve run out of timber’. Line Producer: Sonia Bednar environmental political party in the – Derek Kooistra Cinematographers: Wade Fairly ASC world? & Matt Newton • Brenda was ahead of her time in ‘I think the political establishment felt many ways, with an interest in Writers: Scott Millwood & Mira very threatened by Brenda and by the sustainability, a commitment to Pedder campaigners.’ Robertson consider the environment in all de- – Greens Senator Bob Brown Original Score: Brett Rosenberg velopment, and a belief in the need to find energy alternatives. Imagine • Locate Lake Pedder on a map of she was still alive and active today. Tasmania What do you think her environmen- • Describe the topography of the • Design a plaque and memorial to tal priorities might be? lake as it was before flooding. Brenda Hean to be placed at the • Make a list of current environmen- Describe it today. site of the dam. tal issues, both local and global. • Why was the Lake so important to • Are there parallels with the fight to • ‘It doesn’t do the cause any harm so many people? stop the damming of the Gordon to have a martyr.’ Discuss. • What do you think should happen and Franklin Rivers ten years later? • Are there any issues you feel so to the lake now? Do you think the Research the blockades at the passionately about you would risk damage could be reversed? What . your life for them? does Tim Flannery propose should • What does this film tell us about • Choose one aspect of your local be done? relationships between government, environment and research how it • How would the damming of Lake big business and the police? has changed since 1972 (the year Pedder have impacted on the • Examine the current Tasmanian Lake Pedder was flooded). Make a habitats and eco systems of the government’s stance on the Gunns presentation to the class (perhaps

area? Make a list of all the con- paper mill. Do you believe there is PowerPoint, targeting oral and ICT SCREEN EDUCATION sequences, keeping in mind the still a sense in which the institu- skills). water level was raised by some tions of government are potentially • Brenda was accused of being fifteen metres. corrupted by close ties to industry, hysterical. Why is this a common • Design a slogan and a poster especially those industries de- ploy in conflicts between conser- for the Save Lake Pedder Action pendent on primary resources? vationists and the conservative Group. • Write a story that focuses on an- establishment? How does the label 4 • ‘This film is important because it solar & wind? is not just about Lake Pedder and • Conduct some research into The what happened there: Lake Pedder Tasmanian Hydro Electric Commis- stands for every other environment sion. trammelled by our insatiable need • Write a history of a hydroelectric for energy.’ Discuss. power station. • Explore the following websites: Science : Background

Hydro comes from the Greek word Hands On Energy Discovery Centre: meaning water. Hydroelectricity uses Above: Brenda and Max in lakes. The potential energy in the preflight Cowles water is turned into kinetic energy Energy Kids, Energy Australia: when it flows down through the pipes ‘hysterical’ serve to marginalise causes the downward movement of and disempower a person such the water. Water under pressure enters Technology & Inventions: as Brenda? Given the footage we the power station and is directed onto there is any truth to this allegation? Can a man be hysterical? • ‘The fate of Lake Pedder would have been very different had Brenda Hean survived that fateful plane trip to Canberra.’ Discuss. • Save Lake Pedder activist Kevin Kiernan says of Brenda: ‘Ped- der had the strange capacity to capture the spirit and as some- body who was a devout Christian, she saw it as an expression of the divine … There’s no doubt about that, and it was just an utter act of desecration to allow it to be flooded’. Discuss the idea that for some people today, environmental issues give their life meaning, pur- pose and structure in similar ways to religion. Above: caption. (Source: http://www.hydro.com.au/ • As part of the Save Lake Pedder handson/students/hydrelec.htm) campaign, Brenda wrote articles published in every major newspa- per in the country. Using the in- moving water is turned into mechani- Clean Energy Fact Sheets: All About ternet, find one of her articles and cal energy as it makes the turbine spin Hydroelectricity: present a synopsis to your class. around. The turbine is connected via pened to Brenda? What can we ductor. Here the mechanical energy is

learn from the story of Brenda and turned into electrical energy ready for Open The Floodgates: Hydroelectric- SCREEN EDUCATION Lake Pedder that has relevance to distribution and use. ity: us today? we can address the problems of duced? How does it compare in the future? terms of carbon emissions to coal, 5 bodies and the wreckage have still not been discovered? • ‘Director Scott Millwood is a cen- tral character in his film.’ Discuss. • Make a list of the ways in which the film foregrounds its construc- tion as a text. (Consider the open- ing sequence which uses radio announcer Fran Kelly’s voice; the presence on screen of Millwood; footage of Millwood on Today Tonight and 9am with David and Kim; the use of split screen; the interview sequences that include footage of the camera and sound people; Millwood telling wit- nesses how he wants to film them; Above: Brenda CU conversation on camera between preflight Cowles Millwood and production assistant Stephenie Cahalan over how the researching this story? film is progressing.) Why might the • Are there any details of the story filmmakers have chosen to eschew Film As Text – Media that you would like to know more a more naturalistic presentation of Studies about? the information? • Do you think director Scott Mill- • Make a list of all the types of • Imagine you are the film’s produc- wood’s background as a lawyer visual material used in the film. er, seeking funding for this project. has relevance to this film? (For example, archival photos and Write an outline of your intentions, • Millwood had access to the Tas- footage, Super 8, captions, talking the purpose and value of the film. manian government police files on head interviews …) • Write a review of the film to be • How does the Super 8 footage published in a daily newspaper. function to conjure up a sense of • Write a fifty-word synopsis of the the past? film to be published in a television • Do you think the offer of a re- guide. ward ($100,000) brought forward • Who is the audience for this film? information that might not other- Would it connect strongly with an wise have come to the surface? international audience? Can you find out how much of the • Consult the list of credits at the reward money Millwood paid out in end of this guide. Choose one the process of making this film? role and write an outline of this • ‘A cynic might suggest that the person’s responsibilities during the $100,000 reward has more to do production of the film. with developing material for the • Design a poster to promote the film and generating publicity than film. Annotate your poster, ex- it does with a genuine concern plaining the rationale behind your Above: Max CU preflight to solve the mystery of Brenda’s design choices. Cowles disappearance.’ Discuss. • Explore the significance of the • ‘Millwood films the interview mate- film’s title. Come up with some rial so that people are presented other possible titles. the case, which have never been as both suspects and witnesses, • Imagine you had an opportunity to publicly aired, and this was part of almost as if they were in court interview the film’s director, Scott his initial motivation to make the testifying.’ Discuss.

Millwood. Compile a list of ten film. Why might the film fail to give • ‘The key to the success of the SCREEN EDUCATION questions you would like to put us a clear indication of the exact film is Millwood’s skill and tact as to him, considering issues such contents of these files? an interviewer: everyone is given as his motivation and purpose in • Do you think the filmmakers suc- space to share their version of making this particular film. cessfully reached their objectives events.’ Discuss. • What steps might the film’s pro- with this project? • How important is it to the filmmak- ducers and writers have taken in • Does it matter to the film that the ing process that Millwood is a Tas- 6 manian? Do you think witnesses »» Lindsay Millar – search pilot told him things they might not have »» Mike Ditcham – Brenda’s nephew told a mainlander? »» Doug Fenton – retired sawmiller • How does the hotline function in »» Simon Stamicks – fisherman the film? »» Warren Murphy – skipper • ‘Millwood is equal parts filmmaker and detective.’ Discuss. • What criteria do you think the • ‘More than a documentary, this film filmmakers used when selecting is a murder mystery.’ Discuss. people to appear in the film? • What sorts of devices does Mill- • Choose three people who ap- wood use in order to make the pear in the film. Write profiles of film feel urgent and important to them. Who is the most interesting, contemporary audiences, in order informative, believable? What are to draw us along on his journey? their agendas? What might they • Why might Millwood have decided hope to gain from appearing in this to use Flanagan’s comments for film? Compile students’ work into the closing section of the film (the a class resource. 54-minute version)? • How many people who appear in • ‘This film is a documentary in the the film believe Brenda was mur- truest sense of the word: it is at dered? its heart a search for the truth.’ caption • Conduct some research into the Discuss. incident in which Bob Brown was • The film includes footage of an old shot at. How was this handled by television campaign to promote the media? the benefits of the hydro scheme 1958–1969, 1972–1975 • Who assaulted Geoff Law and at Lake Pedder. Analyse the tone »» Keith Penney – pilot what is telling about this incident? of this material, its effect in this »» Celia Watchorn – Brenda’s niece (It was , who is now documentary, its intended audi- »» Kevin Kiernan – Save Lake Pedder the .) ence, the values and attitudes it »» Jim England – Max Price’s busi- • How reliable do you think Doug presumes and speaks to. ness partner Fenton is as a source of informa- • Conduct a class debate: without »» Maurice Price – Max’s son tion on the case? Why do you the sensational possibility that »» Rob Cape – witness think the filmmakers decided to Brenda was murdered, her story is »» Phyl & Bob Wyatt – witnesses include him? not worth telling. »» John Binns – witness • What is your impression of Sir • Discuss the structure of this film. »» Craig Lapthorne – witness Allan Knight, the Commissioner of Make a list of the chapter head- »» Betty & Trevor Lehman – witnesses the Hydro Electric Commission, in ings (for example, ‘The Mission’, »» Nick & Bev Carosella – witnesses the brief clip we see of him? What ‘The Broken Door’, ‘The Phone »» Derek Kooistra – engineer does it say about his sensibility Call’, ‘Whatever Happened to Max »» Stan Hanuszewicz – retired police- that he makes a glib, flippant joke Price?’, ‘The Inundation’, ‘The man on a topic that matters gravely Wreckage’, ‘The Silence’, ‘Recla- »» Graham King – pilot to many people? (When asked mation’) and under each title put »» Dr Richard Jones – Lake Pedder whether the Hydro Commission key information pertaining to the Action Committee gives a damn about the Tasmanian plot in bullet points. »» Senator Christine Milne – Austral- wilderness he responds, ‘Well, it ian Greens gives a lot of dams for Tasmania: English »» Winsome Fraser – Brenda’s friend we’ve got thirty or forty of them »» Vicki Balfour – Joyce Price’s friend there’.) The Characters: A Chorus »» Fred Hulme – Joyce Price’s last • What do you make of Premier of Dissenting Voices husband Reece’s analogy of the Save Lake »» Bill Flaws (William Playford Flaws – Pedder campaigners to Dr Frank- »» Bob Walker – Save Lake Pedder aka Whiskey Papa Foxtrot) – Max’s enstein?

»» Senator Bob Brown – Australian business partner • Why did Derek Kooistra and Stan SCREEN EDUCATION Greens »» Helen Gee – conservationist Hanuszewicz consult a clairvoyant »» Elspeth Vaughan – artist »» Dick Friend – Save Lake Pedder and what clues were they given? »» Pete Hay – historian »» Tom Clyne – witness (They were searching for the »» Sir Allan Knight – Commissioner, »» Vica Bailey – Tasmanian Wilder- wreckage; the three clues were: Hydro Electric Commission ness Society insulators off an old phone line; the »» Eric Reece – Premier of Tasmania, »» David Barratt – search pilot plant, ‘pig face’; and a big round 7 rock.) How does Derek imagine he could ‘get a house out’ of finding the wreckage? • Describe Bill Flaws’ demeanour as he tells Millwood his account of what happened on the day the plane disappeared. Imagine he is a defendant in a court case and you are on the jury. Write about the impression he creates. • If a fisherman had found some evidence of the plane wreck, why might he choose not to come possible captions could forward with it? go here • Write an embellished transcript of the threatening phone call Brenda received just prior to the flight. Write a character profile of the man conventions of the murder mystery who delivered the death threat. genre. by whom? (Tom Clyne says he was What was his motivation? Who • Write an account of the missing made to sign a federal govern- might he have been working for? plane to be published in a Tasma- ment form to the effect he wouldn’t nian newspaper in the week of the discuss the case.) Is this in itself Mrs Green, Brenda Hean crash. suspicious? • Do you think Brenda would ever • What sort of wreckage might you You cannot delay progress. That’s the have given up her fight to protect expect to find if the Tigermoth had lifeblood of the people. But neverthe- Lake Pedder? crashed into the sea? Would you less these things must be balanced • ‘Believing in a cause can transform expect fishermen in that area to with environmental attributes. This is an ordinary person into a hero.’ have dragged debris up in their concerned thinking, it’s responsible Discuss. dredgers? thinking. And this is why we persist. • Make a list of all the possible – Brenda Hean The Story motives for murder outlined in the documentary. • Students brainstorm a list of adjec- At the end of the day, the myth is more • Do you think the embezzlement tives to describe Brenda Hean, as powerful than whatever the truth is. allegations against staff at Tas- preparation for writing a detailed You know, were the truth to be uncov- manian Aviation Services have character profile. ered it still wouldn’t have the power of any bearing on what happened to • In what ways does Brenda dif- this myth and that’s why you’re here Brenda? fer from our stereotypes of the making this film, and that’s why no • Do you think Max’s illicit affairs ‘Greenie’? Consider Helen Gee’s doubt there is a vast range of people may have brought about Brenda’s comment: ‘Her involvement in the – from the disillusioned to the passion- death? campaign was all the more inspir- ate to the utterly insane – who have • Richard Flanagan speaks of ing because it made it seem okay something vested in this story. people having ‘vested interests in for anyone in Tasmania to protest’; – Richard Flanagan the story’. What does he mean by and observations of her as ‘thor- this? oughly decent’. ‘Mrs Hean, how would you like to go • Write an explanation for the broken • What do you think motivated her? for a swim?’ hangar door. • Write a eulogy for Brenda. – Anonymous phone caller • What apparently happened to the • Write a statement for Brenda to plane’s safety beacons? (They had read to the media outlining why • Do you believe Brenda and Max been removed and were found she is so passionate about Lake were murdered? tossed behind fuel drums in the Pedder. Have students read their • What could account for the hangar.)

speeches to the class, with the fact that a number of witnesses • In what ways might it be significant SCREEN EDUCATION class voting on the one that best included in this film were never in- that 1972 was also the time of the captures the tone and character terviewed by police? Is it possible Federal election? of Brenda as we see her in this that all of these witnesses could be • It has been alleged that the Tasma- documentary. wrong about the authority’s failure nian Government had intended the • Write a short story based on to use search planes? Why were plane to explode on the tarmac, the events of this film, using the witnesses asked to keep silent and killing Brenda and Max, in order to 8 deprive her and the campaign of driven by ignorance.’ What sorts Notes for Wilderness Society fund- publicity. But does that really make of things is he referring to? What raiser screening of the film: sense? Wouldn’t such a disaster does it mean to be ‘reconciled to http://www.wilderness.org.au/ have generated even more public- one’s homeland’? What would that articles/brenda-hean-movie ity than her skywriting stunt? take? Kathy Marks, ‘How Tasmania’s Lady of • ‘This is a David and Goliath story • Choose an image of Lake Ped- the Lake was Silenced’, The Inde- where Goliath wins.’ Discuss. der from the internet and use it as pendent, 15 November 2008: inspiration for a piece of creative http://www.independent.co.uk/ The Place: Tasmania – Isle writing. news/world/australasia/how of Ratbags & Radicals -tasmanias-lady-of-the-lake-was Resources -silenced-1019525.html If we weren’t part of the Common- Details from Millwood’s book: wealth of Australia, there’d be death Books http://books.google.com.au/ squads operating in this island, I have Max Angus, Pedder: The Story, The books?id=Ipg5GqWCNZgC no doubt, because you know this is Paintings, Fullers Bookshop, Tasmania in Photographs: a place where violence is not very far Launceston, Tasmania, 2008. http://tasphotos.blogspot.com/ below the surface. Dick Johnson, Lake Pedder: Why A 2008/10/review-of-millwoods-doco – Pete Hay, historian National Park Must Be Saved, Lake -on-brenda.html Pedder Action Committee, Cam- Blog: ‘Unlucky Environmentalist ‘There’s nothing goes on here in berwell, Victoria, 1972. Brenda Hean’: Tasmania that the police don’t know Scott Millwood, Whatever Happened http://www.fest21.com/en/blog/ about.’ To Brenda Hean?, Angus & Robert- helen/unlucky_environmentalist_ – Doug Fenton, retired sawmiller son, Sydney, 2008. brenda_hean The Franklin Blockade, Wilderness Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile • Locations mentioned by the wit- Society, Hobart, Tasmania, 1983. Review: nesses who spotted the plane as it http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/ left on its trip to Canberra include: Websites home/view.asp?a=14943&s= Bicheno; St Helens; Binnelong Film website, including trailer: Reviews Bay; Point; George http://www.brendahean.com Dan Edwards, ‘Tasmania’s Culture of Rocks; Purdon Beach. Plot these http://www.bigandlittlefilms.com/ Abuse’, 15 December 2008: on a map of the coastline to show our-projects/project/whatever http://newmatilda.com/2008/12/ the route of the plane and suggest -happened-to-brenda-hean/ 15/filming-tasmanias-culture its possible resting place. At The Movies Review, 1 October -abuse • Do you think Tasmania is a more 2008: Rodney Croome, ‘A One Sided violent place than the rest of http://www.abc.net.au/atthe Portrayal of Tasmania’, Hobart Australia? In what ways is Tasma- movies/txt/s2367992.htm Mercury, 8 October 2008: nia’s history more violent than the Julian Shaw, Review of Whatever Hap- http://www.rodneycroome.id.au/ mainland’s? pened To Brenda Hean?, Filmink, 8 other_more?id=2822_0_2_0_M11 • Do you agree that Tasmania is ‘a October 2008. ‘Lake Pedder: Missing in Action’, Re- society immensely traumatised by http://www.filmink.com.au/review/ wind, ABC TV, 15 August 2004: its convict past’ (Richard Flana- whatever-happened-to-brenda http://www.abc.net.au/tv/rewind/ gan)? Provide evidence to support -hean-film/ txt/s1173814.htm your opinion. Interview with Scott Millwood: Lake Pedder Action Committee: • What does historian Pete Hay http://perth.citysearch.com.au/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_ mean when he says Tasmania movies/1137609041694/Finding+ Pedder_Action_Committee was ‘only in a very arid, bloodless Brenda+Hean+and+the+Wilderness Lake Pedder Restoration Committee: sense a democratic system’? Matthew Denholm, ‘Brenda Hean: http://www.lakepedder.org • In what ways can Tasmania be Tiger Moth Death Mystery Re- This is a terrific site with loads of described as ‘a place of secrets’? vealed’, The Australian, 4 October useful information and links. • What do you make of the sign, 2008: Restore the Earth: ‘Trespassers will be shot not pros- http://www.theaustralian.news. http://www.restore-earth.org

ecuted’? com.au/story/0,25197,24443992 Lake Pedder, Time Frame: SCREEN EDUCATION • Discuss Tim Flannery’s statement: -2702,00.html http://www.abc.net.au/science/ ‘Tasmania’s the most beautiful of Whatever Happened To Brenda Hean? kelvin/files/s18.htm places for me and in some ways DVD: Tasmania National Parks Association: the saddest of places … It’s just http://www.gilscrinefilms.com.au/ http://www.tnpa.asn.au a history of unnecessary tragedy product.asp?SKU=WHTBH 9 Natasha Simons, ‘Lake Pedder: The Lake Pedder, Bushwalk Tasmania: Tasmanian Greens: Beginning of a Movement’, Green http://bushwalk-tasmania.com/ http://www.tas.greens.org.au Left, issue 73, 30 September 1992: forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=699 ‘The New Ethic’, 1972: http://www.greenleft.org.au/1992/ &p=9653 http://www.global.greens.org.au/ 73/2374 Lake Pedder: charter/UTGnewethic.html Mel Barnes, ‘The Woman Who Tried http://www.milesago.com/ Louise O’Shea, ‘Does Gunns Run To Save Lake Pedder’, Green Left, Features/lake-pedder.htm Tasmania?’, Socialist Alternative, issue 775, 15 November 2008: Poems on Lake Pedder: October 2008: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/ http://www.lakepedder.org/ http://www.sa.org.au/index.php? 775/39981 resources/poems/index.html option=com_content&task=view Allan Barnes, ‘PM: Save Lake Pedder’, Map Lake Pedder District: &id=1444&Itemid=106 The Age, 21 December 1972: http://maps.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p Gunns and Tasmania: http://vrroom.naa.gov.au/main_ &p=168407&cmd=sp http://wotnews.com.au/news/ display.aspx?ObjectType= Lake Pedder: Lost To The World – Lest Gunns__and__Tasmania/ ResearchRecordDisplay&iRecord We Forget: This site is a clearinghouse for Id=763 http://stott.customer.netspace.net. links to articles on the topic. Robert Rankin, ‘Remember Lake Ped- au/pedder.htm Bob Brown: der?’: Tasmanian Wilderness Society: http://www.australianpolitics.com/ http://www.rankin.com.au/essay7. http://www.wilderness.org.au/ parties/greens/07-05-10_bob htm regions/tasmania -brown-biography.pdf ‘Lake Pedder: 30th Anniversary’, Di- The Companion to Tasmanian History: Hydro Tasmania: mensions in Time, 10 June 2002: http://www.utas.edu.au/library/ http://www.hydro.com.au http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/ companion_to_tasmanian_ dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/ history/W/Wilderness%20socy.htm s578467.htm

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