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The Emu War (or Great Emu War) [2] 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, a large flightless bird indigenous to Australia, said to be destroying crops in the Campion district within the Wheatbelt of Western Australia.
Emu War (1932) • Australia • Emus of Campion district Defeat • Australian Royal Artillery failure to pacify Emus of Campion None: 986 emus [27] World War II (1939–1945) An Australian light machine gun team in action during the Aitape–Wewak campaign, June 1945. United States Soviet Union United Kingdom China; France; Poland Yugoslavia ...
1 July – The Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) is established; 2 November – Start of the Emu War. 23 November – The statue of The Dog on the Tuckerbox is unveiled at Gundagai, New South Wales by Prime Minister Joseph Lyons. 10 December – The Emu War ends in failure.
1932: Emu War; 1932–1934: Caledon Bay crisis; A propaganda poster calling for Australians to avenge the sinking of Centaur. 1939–1945: Second World War. Axis naval activity in Australian waters. 1941: Sinking of HMS Sydney; 1942: Attack on Sydney Harbour; 1942: Shelling of Newcastle; 1942: Attack on the Dureenbee; 1943: Shelling of Port Gregory
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An extreme example of this was the Emu War in Western Australia in 1932. Emus flocked to the Chandler and Walgoolan area during a dry spell, damaging rabbit fencing and devastating crops. An attempt to drive them off was mounted, with the army called in to dispatch them with machine guns; the emus largely avoided the hunters.
Sir Robert Archdale "Archie" Parkhill KCMG (27 August 1878 – 2 October 1947) was an Australian politician who was a member of the House of Representatives from 1927 to 1937. He began his career in politics as a campaign director for the Commonwealth Liberal Party and Nationalist Party .
In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) is an Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel about the 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty. It is notable as the screen debut of Errol Flynn, playing Fletcher Christian. The film preceded MGM's more famous Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, by two years.