Society & Culture
"This is the worst man-made environmental disaster in Australian history" - fourth generation farmer, Rob McBride.At the start of 2019, one million fish died in the lower Darling river, catapulting the plight of the Murray Darling Basin river system to headline news across the country. But how did it get to this?In this episode, discover how one whistleblower, supported with a job and a team at the Australia Institute, interprets the water bureaucratese and puts it into plain English for river communities, politicians, journalists and farmers and created a body of research that uncovers exactly how Australia stuffed up a $13 billion public policy.Subscribe now and listen on your favourite podcast app.CREDITS: How to Make a Whistleblower is a special three-part podcast mini-series by the Australia Institute. Written and produced: Jennifer Macey. Additional production: Lizzie Jack. Editing by Ebony Bennett and fact checking by Maryanne Slattery. Executive producer: Anna Chang. Music by Blue Dot Sessions. For more information on this podcast and the Australia Institute’s research on the Murray Darling Basin, visit our website http://tai.org.au