Kathy Marks The Independent. New evidence backs claims that pioneering Tasmanian eco-warrior Brenda Hean’s plane was sabotaged.
Brenda Hean was an unlikely activist. A wealthy dentist’s widow, devout Christian and social conservative from a well-bred family, the very proper 62-year-old was part of the Tasmanian establishment. Yet when the state government announced plans to drown a pristine mountain lake in the south-west of the island in the late 1960s, Mrs Hean underwent an epiphany. Read more here