$100,000 Reward
Filmmaker to solve 35 year mystery
HOBART - Australian filmmaker Scott Millwood appealed to the public today to come forward with information regarding the disappearance of leading Tasmanian conservationist, Brenda Hean and pilot Max Price, who went missing in 1972 without trace.
The award-winning film director Scott Millwood (Wildness) is to start shooting a documentary film about the disappearance of Brenda Hean, and is himself offering a $100,000 reward for information that solves the mystery of the disappearance.
“The disappearance of Brenda Hean and her pilot Max Price is one of the great mysteries of Tasmania” said Millwood. “The secrecy that surrounds the question of what happened to these environmental champions is extraordinary and the truth will only be unearthed when brave people come forward to relay their accounts. We are determined to uncover the facts and to tell the story of this amazing woman – but we really need the help of the public.”
Brenda Hean was one of the leading environmental campaigners of the early 1970s and a founder of the first environmental political party in the world. Hean was campaigning against the destruction of Lake Pedder by a massive hydro-electric scheme. Just months before the Federal election, she and her pilot took off from Tasmania in a two-seater Tiger Moth bound for Canberra where Hean intended to meet with key Federal Government figures. They planned to sky-write “Save Lake Pedder” over Parliament House. However the plane never reached its destination and the battle to save Lake Pedder was lost.
Despite extensive searches by police and the Department of Civil Aviation, the plane was never found. Evidence of foul play later emerged, pointing to the possible sabotage of the plane. Despite calls for transparency, the Tasmanian Government never conducted a full public enquiry into the disappearance.
Although thirty-five years have passed since the disappearance, Millwood believes that there may be people who have information about the alleged sabotage of the plane and where the plane may have crashed.
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