The Emu War, also known as the Great Emu War, was a nuisance wildlife management military operation undertaken in Australia over the later part of 1932 to address public concern over the number of emus said to be running amok and destroying crops in the Campion district within the Wheatbelt of Western Australia.
Here is a sentence that is at once absurd and unsurprising: in 1932, Australia declared war on emus. It sounds like a joke, but the Great Emu War of Western Australia was real. Soldiers with machine guns were deployed to fight off the flightless birds.
The Emu War, also called the Great Emu War, was a military operation in Australia. Emus are large birds that cannot fly. Emus only occur in Australia. The Australian army killed many emus because the farmers thought they were pests.
Australia's history is different from that of many other nations in that since the first coming of the Europeans and their dispossession of the Aboriginals, Australia has not experienced a subsequent invasion; no war has since been fought on Australian soil. Yet Australians have fought in ten wars.
I first heard about “The Great Emu War”, which the Australian army lost, when having a few drinks with friends.
Afghanistan was Australia's longest war, and the past few months have been a painful reminder of the sacrifices made by the men and women of the Australian Defence Force.
Recognising a need for an official Salvation Army publication for the whole of Australia, the Salvo headquarters in Melbourne printed the first official Australian Warcry on 16 June 1883.
For 2022, Australia is ranked 17 of 142 out of the countries considered for the annual GFP review. It holds a PwrIndx* score of 0.2377 (a score of 0.0000 is considered 'perfect').
World War II 1939 to 1945. Korean War 1950 to 1953. Malayan Emergency 1948 to 1960. Indonesian Confrontation 1963 to 1966.
Australia currently has provisions for conscription, only during times of war if it is authorised by the governor-general and approved within 90 days by both houses of Parliament, as outlined in Part IV of the Defence Act 1903.
That lasted until December, at which point Meredith and his men were forced to admit defeat and retreat: the Australian army had been defeated by emus. They had used nearly all 10,000 rounds of ammunition, but at the cost of 10 rounds per emu killed.
Australia once declared war against emus and lost. Australia in 1932 declared a war against emus, as about 20,000 emus began occupying farmland, which was intended for WWI veterans. The Ministry of Defence deployed soldiers and provided machine guns to annihilate the birds.
Australia's largest extant predator is the dingo C. lupus dingo. There is observational evidence that where dingoes are locally abundant, foxes and cats are rare (Newsome 2001; Glen & Dickman 2005). Dingoes kill these smaller predators, and foxes evidently fear and avoid dingoes (O'Neill 2002; Mitchell & Banks 2005).
Kangaroos in Combat
Some Kangaroo APCs, such as the Badger Kangaroos, were even equipped with flamethrowers. From 1944 until the end of the war, two regiments were specifically assigned to use Kangaroo APCs: the 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment and the British 49th Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment.
Some of our Australian animals are very well known like kangaroos, dingos, wallabies and wombats and of course the koala, platypus and echidna.
Australia is a very safe country to visit. The country has a stable political system and a low crime rate, and Australians generally experience a safe lifestyle.
Between February 1942 and November 1943, during the Pacific War of World War II, the Australian mainland, domestic airspace, offshore islands, and coastal shipping were attacked at least 111 times by aircraft from the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force and Imperial Japanese Army Air Force.
However, Axis surface raiders and submarines periodically attacked shipping in the Australian coastal waters from late 1940 to early 1945. Japanese aircraft bombed towns and airfields in Northern Australia on ninety-seven occasions during 1942 and 1943.
Since that time, United States has been the most important security ally. The close security relationship with the United States was formalized in 1951 by the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security (ANZUS) Treaty which remains the cornerstone of Australian security arrangements.
Australia can become a renewable superpower provided it doesn't have to waste too much energy moving stuff around. Most of the energy in the world is used to move products and people from one place to another. And that is one of the main reasons that has led to increases in emissions during the era of globalisation.
On 13 February 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a formal apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, particularly to the Stolen Generations whose lives had been blighted by past government policies of forced child removal and assimilation.
We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. For the pain, suffering, and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.
“How ya goin'?” is the ultimate Aussie greeting. If you're not from Australia, this mash-up of “How are you?” and “Where are you going?” might leave you a little perplexed. If it helps, think of how the Brits say “y'alright?” - it requires no detailed response. In fact, a simple “hey!” will suffice.