Kate McBride exposes why millions of fish died in Menindee | Australian Story
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- 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.
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As a fellow aussie 🇦🇺 I'm glad Kate is on our side 💪
A fantastic episode, we're so proud to have Kate on board.
Missed the show on TV - so glad to find it here - keep up the good work young lady
So glad that she spoke out in support of the natural environment. We need more environmental warriors!! 👏👏👏👏👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Great story that needed telling. Praise to Kate for being a strong Aussie trying to fix the wrongs happening in the bush😊😊😊h
Have you checked out the damage that chemical aerial spraying is doing to the land? Rob D. talks about it. See Paris Agreements paper 2016. Page 7.
Dang, I watched the whole video and still never learned why millions of fish died in Menindee. Did anybody else catch that?
Blue green algae. Which I only know the term from friendly jordies
Brought you you by the National Party!
Bushfires,droughts and flooding rain .
Actually, they died because the flow of the river stopped and stretches of river became billabongs instead. Over time, evaporation concentrated the fish population and algae blooms to the point the water became deoxygenated (hypoxic) and the fish essentially suffocated.
What a truly, awesomely inspiring story!
The crippled river is Barilaro's posthumous gift to the outback.
And why isn't there any mention of the Indian owned cotton farms up river TAKING all the water!?!?!
@@TaureanTrish They can only take the water after being given the green light by the Government.
@@Simon.the.Likeable Absolutely true, however we need to keep these reasons visible so that they can be addressed appropriately.
So good to see Kate advocating. My family are farmers in the Central West of NSW and don't believe in climate change; they spout the rhetoric of the likes of Barnaby Joyce that terrifies me. It's unbelievable that we have people who grow our food, but refuse to educate themselves on climate change.
Like that in the states, too. I lived in a rural farming area in the midwest for decades and was quite depressed by what I saw and heard.
This girl is the country peaples voice so passionate an fare so sound an pure level headed with hands on experience she deserves great things
So sad to see these images. Good for you Kate, keep going, you'll get there eventually👏
Fight the Good Fight, we can never give up on the Natural World !!!. The UN needs to address the growing world population. Supply and demand for resources is killing us... profits shouldn't take priority over Natural habitats. Thank you Kate, keep on keeping on !!!.
Shocking images (of all the dead fish)
You can thank Barnaby and his cotton mafia.
YEAH!!
Water is Life and when we waste water we waste life and it is understood by all who see a waste know who to trust with water. "When the Well is Dry we know the Worth of Water." -Benjamin Franklin.
Thank you Kate for your amazing work..
Thank you Kate, for choosing to have a strong voice. Am from Central West and local attitudes terrify me. None are so blind and deaf as those that will not see or hear.
Kate rocks.
Most of the people making a living in the Bush there really appreciate and love the land.
I've lived in Alaska, the Everglades, and the Rockies.
I have never seen anything remotely like those fish kills that community has faced
Now I understand why ABC disables comments on all of their youtube videos... I would also be totally humiliated by that CGI bird at 0.08
She's got a media face - of course the media would focus on her.
Kate for PM & the mother of my children ❤
AdvoKate for Biodiversity ✨🦋 29:32
never seen that level of fish kill. i pray this get solved at the cause, not just the symptoms...blessings
Kate.......absolutely become a Teal candidate........you can do it!!!
If you can't be amicable about a succession plan not going your way with your own family maybe politics is a good pathway.
Also, welcome to the life of every farming family
@@caltha2720 Where women don't count! Always been done that way! First son always does!
What's worse than carbon? Answer is methane. It does so much more damage, along with permafrost melting you have methane and carbon, its a cycle that is never ending and is speeding up.
Good on her, but the station is her father's wait until he is ready to retire.
At age 25 you can not expect the reigns to be handed over.
I remember that happened bad management?
Hopefully Labour is able to change things a bit now they're in...
We didn't get to hear her views on carbon' credits. I understand that he wasn't ready to hand over the reigns. We have heard only half the story.
Why do girls put a K sound on the ending of words like "anything" and "starting" and "planning"?
Kate for P.M!!
So, isn’t this a natural occurrence that probably has been happening for ever. The fish die from the algae and put nutrients in the ground. If the fish are dying from pesticides, that is a different story, but did I miss something, was that mentioned?
Inspirational
if the water is not suitable for fish, it would be even less for people
¾ of the way thru and still its as clear as mud wtf any of this is even about
The plan is there is no plan give it 10 years he will be dead and the farm is no more.
This documentary made me want to get a dirtbike.
❤
Hell on earth
One word Molochy !
What coursed oxygen lacking in this river?
Blue green algae
@@kyleeats5331 Thanks to National Party mismanagement, as always!
There are two million malnourished children in Nigeria. Just sayin' bad things happen
Many bad things can be prevented from happening.Never be a quitter
what-aboutism
Use more fertilizer. That ought to do it.
......and that, sadly, is part of the belief system around this climate crisis with uneducated producers.
Swiftgrow