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hello and welcome to the targets are increasingly Wilson and I'm calling from, and today we have an episode that right from the suggestion marks from Twitter user empty Purvis who asked us. If we could please talk about the EMU War of nineteen. Thirty to the reference that as one of the most bizarre wildlife management stories, I would like to just go ahead and put it out there. Yes, correct. That's that, completely accurate. But it's also a story that needs a little bit of context afterwards. There were a lot of soldiers in Australia, both australian and british, and they moved to rural parts of the country, as part of a world settlement effort described as a state scheme. This includes a state scheme intended to turn sort in the ploughshares by Marie Johnson,

journal of australian studies, so the government purchased about ninety thousand hectares of land and much of it was not actually very good for farmland, there's theirs of land and Australia, but a lot of it does not work for quote conventional farming very well. That put the high demand on the parts that are going to be the best for farming A lot of the soldiers wound up in more of the marginal areas that weren't actually that great for farming So they were already set up to have some challenges in their farming work and, in particular, in the european while go and district, which is northeast of Perth in Western Australia. Population was largely soldier settlers, many of whom were growing weak and about five thousand of them trying their hand that agricultural work as part of soldier settlement, many hedge, their beds using their land for mixed farming like they would try to grow wheat and produce will, at the same time,

and when the price of one commodity went down, sometimes they could make up the difference with the other thing that they were working on. So in spite of the fact that this a lot of us was not really prime far and through the nineteenth worrying things had gone pretty. Well, they had several good seasons a, but by the time the these rolled around things started to go said the little bit they were. Becoming a little strained commodity prices were dropping. Droughts had become really common. There was a lot of a lot of problem with rabbit investigation and even one thing had been better. Sometimes there had already been problems with really hard frosts and the rabbits. We will talk about them, and the value for many of us really is goods was really dropping and the deficit was out of control in a hurry. Happened yes, and the value for many of US goods was really dropping and the deficit was out of control in a hurry the austrian government, which was under premises, James School and at the time used the countries we

coming as an attempt to prevent the financial disaster that was falling upon all of them and, under the grow more weekend campaign, the government had actually promised a price of four shillings per bushel for wheat dear, was it. The government could use wheat to offset the collapsing price of other goods right and people were really tempted by this idea of four shillings, a bushel getting a guaranteed price, for something was great and unexpected it with a better price than they could really expect other places, but unfortunately act, this deal had been promoted to everyone. The price of wheat started collapsing too, and the press. If we had already decline just tremendously the wheat marketing bill, which would have We got the money that has been promised to the farmers was voted in the Senate on July. Fourth, nineteen thirty, so people had been expect They could grow all the sweet, sell it guarantees

four shillings, a bushel and then the funding essentially fell. When the bill was voted down. It was a hugely important. Especially in western Australia, where these particular farmers were living. It was important that there were talks of western australian secession from the rest of Australia. As the debate was going on, one of the people making this sort of threat way Mr H, Gregory of West Australia and the House of Representatives who said that Western Australia was going to have way more difficult than any other australian state. If the farmers it didn't get their money for their wheat. There were other initiatives attempted to try to make good on the promise, either by Australia or by the individual states, but they just could not get off the ground another build a pay. Three shillings purposeful was passed, but by then the situation was so dire and the country was having so many fiscal issues that they didn't have the money to actually pay it. It was just words right that the price of wheat kept falling during that,

and the farmers were becoming angrier and angrier and more frustrated because they were waiting for this higher price that the government had promised them. While watching the market price fall, so they were losing the ability to cut their losses the longer they waited on the government, the pay them at once when they got so frustrated that they even stop loading their green and an attempt to force the government to pay up. It was sort of effectively the same thing is going on strike, but that didn't work Finally, the wheat Bounty ACT was passed on November, twenty fifth of nineteen thirty one and that paid four and a half pence per sure on all we marketed in nineteen thirty, one, the nineteen, thirty two and other relief measures did follow, Measures unfortunately, did not offer that much actual relief. It's a little hard to compare has a strictly in money, was not on the decimal system at the time. Now, austrian money is on the dollar, but there too

shillings and a pound, and two hundred and forty pimps and a pound so to draw from four shillings to four and a half pence per bushel is incredible: that's a pretty significant tank driving. That's the context. You have all of these farmers who have been farming. All of this. We their desperate able to sell their weak force, something all the governments to be able to pay the money have pretty much fallen through their there now sort of raping together. This tiny, tiny amount per bushel. This what's going on when just before them In thirty, two wheat harvest the email game. So a little bit a background in case you dont know that emu is which I found out some people I know who are smart, did not so so that I've always billings out that's surprising, as we actually have emu in Georgia yeah our places, its currently hospitable environment for them. So it's a large ostrich like flightless bird, that's natives, you, Australia about one in it.

Half metres, which is five feet tall and forty five kilograms or a hundred pounds. So a big flightless bird sum of some species have been exterminated by settlers and our extinct, the extinct, the ones. Left can run really fast. They kick when their cornered and they liked eat fruit, insects and wheat. It turns out they generally migrate, kind of westward out of dry areas and towards the coast after their breeding season. Rabbit fruit, rabbit proof, fences, parts of Australia that were built between ninety no one and ninety new seven keep them away from much of the coast, but it runs sort of north south. Even though there are migrating westward there also going northward. So they are pretty much running the same direction as the fences going. So there's not a lot of protection offered with this fence

It also turns out that their wily, which people were not expecting when they concocted this plan, even had been protected under the game. Active eighteen, seventy four, but in nineteen eighteen new legislation which went into effect in nineteen twenty, two twisted them as vermin, because if there really devastating effect on wheat farms, yes, so nineteen thirty two to one. Thousand giant kicking running bird vermin descended upon the wheat farms. It was night good, for anyone. They were making their way through farms around champion and while Glenn, which eastern northeast of Perth, as we said before, causing huge damage to the weak And some of the soldier settlers we're we remember, a very effective weapon from world war. One

and we're gonna go ask if we can get help so they went to Sir George Pierce, who was the Minister of Defence and said we would like the military's help with this emu problem and set. Can we have some machine guns fleeting which we have put in place? just one of those things that seems so extreme. It's almost hard to process. When I want to fight a bird, let me get some heavy artillery this episode of stuff you missed in history, glasses, brought. You buy Norton three sixty with Lifelock. Let's just say your shopping online with your smartphone. I do it all the time they sure feels like your personal info is right there in your hand, but that's not all. Was the case because, as soon as you hit submit your purse information could start going other places. In fact, when you shop, bank or browse online, your personal info can get out of your control, which can leave you vulnerable to cybercriminals, more through demand more protection

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it's easy to switch and save on car insurance. No need to fake an angel sprang because you're absolutely exhausted, so which, in save with Geiger it's almost better than sports we're really desperately seeking help. At this point, Pierce agreed that he was going to send some soldiers. There were some conditions, though local defence personnel, not civilians, had to be there to man. The machine gun where he was going to send some soldiers. There were some conditions, though local d, personnel. Not civilians had to be there to man. The machine guns, their heads the commanding officer present, eight of western Australia would have to pay for the troop transport and the soldier settlers would have to provide the housing and the ammo and the food for the troops he did all of this with informing the military board. Colonel who'd have First Cavalry division in Sydney had also requested. Hundred emu skins, with the hope of using feathers for his light, horsemen hat so that

really like they felt they had put a plan together. That was gonna work. Yes, they thought success was imminent. Yes and Well, they are going to be able to learn new moves, retrieved their skins. So I am really happy Georgie P, W Meredith was the commander of the seventh heavy battery and in of this event, also to quote Murray Johnson, who eat referenced earlier, object. Mc Murray and Gunnar O Halloran Amira Equipment consists, of two Louis Machine guns and ten thousand rounds of ammunition their task force with also joined by a fox movie tones than photographer to record the forthcoming campaign, which suggests that someone in authority possibly pierce, saw. Direct military activity in the wheat lands as useful government propaganda. So we ve got major the sergeant, the Gunnar and a movie team coming

Western Australia. They were in western Australia already, but coming to this part of western Australia, you kill emails and foment. How could this go? way success. Just for cod. The Louis Machine Gun is a light machine gun. It was invented by yes, Colonel Isaac, Newton, Louis, and it was used principally by the british Empire in World WAR, one. It has a flat pan, Maggie on top instead of a belt feed. As you might imagine, you can actually look up Youtube videos of this and see what we're talking about it's kind of fascinating, the way, a feed through their fighting flat pan of ammunition. It's on top yeah we're the the ammo is actually loaded into the pan, almost like the rays of the sun. If you were drawing like a childish drawing of the sun and any flip it under the the machine gun in it feeds from that pan, rather than we ve all seen in films like those long about feed the YAP But it doesn't look like that now this team arrived in early October, but just after they

they are a rainstorm drove all the emu is out of the fields for long enough that they said okay. This is actually we're, not we're not worth waiting around here. We're gonna go home when You came back about a month later merit Major Meredith and his team came back as well and they arrived at the fields near champion on November. Second, at about the time same time as a herd of about fifty emails, the was it the emails or out of range of the machine guns, and some soldiers tried to come and heard the emails toward the guns, which was not all that effective. They fight we did manage to strike a few birds as they were fleeing for the cover of nearby trees and they actually made a base camp on the way and the man named Joseph Joyce, and they did recall on the surrounding farms. For activity, they mean to take out about a dozen birds before deciding to change their tactics from seek out and shoot tooth,

ambushes near water sources, rightly Amber strategy with a little more successful than the seeking suit strategy, but but not really by much November third passed without any kind of incident on them. Fourth about a thousand emails came out of the trees and approached the ambush directly. The ambush was set on the walls of a damn and the machine gunners open fire and hit a few birds before the machine gun jammed the settlers who were assisting with its operation open fire with their rifles. But by that point the birds were scattering and running for the tree line they It is for the rest of the day for the birds to come back to this watering hole when they didn't come back. If everybody started to get the. Maybe these emails were a little smarter than they had thought year. They didn't care, using. The logic of that thing is dangerous. I will stay away from. It does not go back there, so they moved their operation south and they

I demand a Louis machine gun onto a truck so that they could fire while driving and hit it around the move that the outran them and escaped into the trees and the Gunnar found the rights a rough that he really was unable to fire the machine gun anyway. Now, elsewhere. On the same day, a truck ran down in emu hid. It ran out of control and destroyed along link the fence, so the battle against that you may use was not really going very well anywhere that day by the eighth of November major Merest Meredith team had about a quarter of their ammunition, which was about twenty five hundred rounds and with that they had killed. Two hundred mhz me later called at three hundred and the soldier settlers rounded up to five hundred, maybe raise their spirits. They were the ones paying for the ammo soda idea that such a tiny proportion of ammo was actually killing. Emu was a little distressing when they were the ones paying for the bullets eleven November ninth

word actually got to parliament about what was going on when parliament, member Harold Thorn be actually Prime Minister, Lions, about the farce. That was going on in western Australia that same day, secretary of Defence sent a telegram ordering the operation to end. This is example of we would rather asked for forgiveness than permission did not work out because, having not asked for permission, they were when you have a passion for sports, you crowded precision do I was just about to say, and the love of your life does to throw boy. A passion is now turning on me when you have an insanity for sports and your husband as to you find yourselves constantly debating the goats. So we decided to start a pot gas. All about this topic is called the greatest grid

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Well, in its most likely actually made things worse since the fleeing email them, not only been eating weak, but now they were trembling crops right, so this hold your settlers, though continue dance for aid and Meredith's report spoke of the extensive damage the image had done. He also explained as best as he could why, He had used so much ammo and so few birds- and these are his words. It must be realised but an emu fall out can do forty five miles an hour. Consequently, the target is after the first burst, very rapidly moving one and is only visible for a very short time. Moreover, the emu is an amazingly hard bird to kill outright and many moral. Many carry mortal wounds up to the distance of half a mile on actual observation. Much later in this campaign. A farmer ain't. You Johnson killed an email with its track and that bird had five bullets and his body, which appear to have been from the first onslaughts, so

This issue is still alive days after being shot with multiple rounds. It had survived. It was this carrying around metal while it ran about its business. Yes, people and their government peered try to distance themselves from the idea of a second campaign. Minister of Defence finally said that no military personnel could be placed there, but that the state government could have equipment if it found its own qualified leaders, so they didn't want to waste man hours, but they were willing to offer them the materials needed to continue trying to fight the emails on their own. But there were no experience machine gunners in the civil service list, so it was back to me The team who were being lampooned as major Meredith and his merry men. They came back to the area and launched a second offensive on November thirteenth and they use Joseph choices property as their starting point again.

Killed about twenty five emails on November thirteenth and about the twenty about twenty. More the day after at about this, I am an animal welfare officer was sent to oversee the reports that so many birds were apparently being injured and then continuing to run its not likely that he was able to do that much. So he was basically there to try to ensure that the animals were suffering, that they re being hit and killed and not needlessly carrying on in an inhumane way right, but that was that was his role, but it's unlikely that it actually made much of an effect by November fifteen. The birds have started to become release, cautious of the soldiers activities, which I think people want quite expecting them to learn from experience that they width day out of range of them and so they were smarter than people thought they re, they were learning range distance and where with safe, and where was it right, they had foundries in their head of how closely again

when the t, moved around the area, as various farmers would report to them, that they had seen images and had crop damage December. Second, they were pretty consistently killing by reports about a hundred times a week. That's what they, killing people. Brigadier Martin recalled major Meredith on December tenth in Martens reports. He gave an estimate, nine hundred and eighty six birds killed and nine thousand eight hundred and sixty bullets used that's a suspicious accounting of birds versus bullets and about its just multiplied by tat. Yet There is an ongoing attempts to get the soldier settlers to repay the military for that Amy. That ammunition. The way that it went down is that the We're cultural Bank reimburse the military on the soldiers behalf and then the bank put off asking the soldiers to repay them until nineteen thirty three, because they knew times are hard for everybody. Eventually T Dixon.

Who was the president of the wheat growers union at champion? Gotta demand for thirty five pounds Daniel O Leary, who was an executive member of the well go in wheat growers of union gotta demand for twenty four pounds. Eventually got his payment, reduce, though to one pound fourteen shillings You didn't have to pay anything encountered with an accounting of how much money he had spent personally on the effort, including nine pounds victualling his majesty's troops, ten pounds for transport with a further five for damage to same and nine hundred pounds for the loss of six thousand bushels of wheat, valued at three p m. Four bushel the whole thing right, suspended and many sources dont show that anybody ever actually got paid that no money changed hands for reimbursement now, even though this is pretty roundly seen as an unsuccessful attempts to curb the population of emails. Western Austria,

continued to ask for military help again in nineteen thirty, four, nineteen, thirty, eight and nineteen forty. The military turned down the request, all free time, the soldier settlers use their own arms to fight the emails instead away. Hu we mentioned a few minutes ago, and nineteen forty three also mentioned getting an hour s pc a letter about their destruction of the emails and how it was cruel. His response was that they were going to defend their crops and they did not need anyone's permission and. After world war to farmers were actually issued free ammunition for dealing with vermin, Eighty four thousand seven hundred and for emu were known to have been killed by farmers between nineteen, forty, five and nineteen sixty seven just fifteen years time right so it seems while the firing of machine guns at herds of emu is not very successful as an attempt to control their population.

People have been able to do a little better with a rifle sort of Without wanting to time there are still lots and lots of emails in Australia. Their population now is controlled by a bounty, their payments given for between five thousand and forty thousand birds a year in western Australia. Even though there are that many being shot. Reportedly, their population are still pretty healthy, it's sort of like the idea of if, if the bird is really being passed, and it's not negatively affecting their overall population at the point of present them to be able to keep them out of farmland than generally people seem to be ok with the situation here, it's always known as a compassionate human being, it's always hard to think about being killed. But this is one of those cases where the government is really trying to balance the health of the

our population and the welfare of the human population and its tricky there's no easy answer. Really. That's gonna make everybody happy, so that's where they believed it is with. Some bounty fell that that one attempt nineteen to find a battle. They fought a battle and at the time things where they were. Obviously things were hard in the great depression. People really took the unity to two lamp who, in the military and the government when that was going on and became a source of entertainment for people which people kind of needed then, and it was it- was nice for people to have a government target that they could laugh tat when people felt like the government was taking a lot of blame for what was going on in the community at the time

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