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Fifty years on, Bunbury's woodchip bombing still divides memory

The 1976 Bunbury woodchip bombing was an anti-woodchipping protest that damaged a port and led to prison terms.

Why it mattersThe bombing shows how far the fight over old-growth forests could go in Western Australia. It also became a lasting example of how environmental protest, public damage and criminal punishment can become tied together in the same story.