How Australia lost a war to flightless birds and found a national fable. The battlefield was the parched wheatbelt of Western Australia, a land of saltbush and sorrow.
The enemy was Dromaius novaehollandiae, the emu, standing six feet tall, weighing as much as a soldier’s kit, and capable of outrunning a horse. Twenty thousand of them had descended upon the newly cleared farmland like a feathered plague, devouring wheat that returning Great War veterans had staked their futures on. When fences failed and bounties proved too slow, the farmers did what farmers have always done: they begged the government to shoot the problem away.
And the government, in its infinite wisdom, obliged. Major Meredith of the Royal Australian Artillery was dispatched with two men and a Lewis light machine gun. His orders were simple: kill the emus, save the crops, and prove that the Empire’s military might extended to the kingdom of fauna.
He lost. Twice.
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