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Father Land S2E3: John Murdoch on reaching breaking point, fatherhood & life after the fires

Father Land S2E3: John Murdoch on reaching breaking point, fatherhood & life after the fires17 sept.1 h 18 min

John Murdoch likens people to rubber bands. You can only stretch them so far. And for him, the breaking point came during the drought and bushfires of 2019 and 2020. Years earlier, he’d left a career in accounting to return to the family farm in the Monaro region of New South Wales. He wanted to work alongside his dad, and build a future with his wife, Kate. Now, he was feeding livestock through drought, helping his parents through their separation, and raising a young family of his own. He f...