How not to protect nature

By Damien Murphy
Updated January 1 2018 - 12:23am, first published December 31 2017 - 2:50pm

Protests against a Joh Bjelke-Petersen government proposal to build a road through rainforest abutting the Great Barrier Reef in the mid-1980s attracted so much national attention that the Daintree area became a huge tourist attraction overnight.

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