Australian Story

Call of the River (28x9)

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From accidental activist to Parliamentary liaison, young farmer Kate McBride has come a long way in four years. In 2019, Kate alerted the world to mass fish kills in the Darling River via a video she filmed of her distressed father holding a dead Murray Cod. To Kate’s surprise, she soon became the face of efforts to save the Darling River and was tipped as a future leader. Now aged 25, Kate McBride has left her family farm near Menindee in western NSW and taken a job with a public policy think tank in Canberra where she’s an advocate for the bush. Kate has also been dealing with a personal dilemma – questions around the succession of her family’s property. It’s been brought on by generational differences over how best to manage the land in a time of climate change.