Australian Story

Introduced by Leigh Sales, "Call of the River" is an update to the 2019 episode: "Cry Me a River".

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.