The Emu War
The offensive against the emus became the only military operation of its kind to take place on Australian soil. Astoundingly, the Australian Government was forced to concede defeat when the avian adversary outplayed, outwitted and outlasted troops in several fateful battles. The story goes like this…
In the years following World War I, a soldier settlement scheme was rolled out by the government to re-employ soldiers returned from war. Under this scheme, around 5030 ex-soldiers received plots of land. An arid,
