High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The "Emu War" was a nuisance wildlife management operation undertaken in Australia over the latter part of 1932 to address public concern over the number of emus said to be running amok in the Campion district of Western Australia. The attempts to curb the population of emus, a large flightless bird indigenous to Australia, employed soldiers armed with machine guns – leading the media to adopt the satirical name "Emu War" when referring to the incident. Subsequent to the cessation of hostilities after World War I, large numbers of ex-soldiers from Australia, along with a number of British veterans, took up farming within Western Australia, often on the more marginal areas. With the onset of the depression in 1929, these farmers were encouraged to increase their wheat crops, with the government promising – and failing to deliver – assistance in the form of subsidies. In spite of the recommendations and the promised subsidies, wheat prices continued to fall, and by October of 1932 matters were coming to a head, with the farmers preparing to harvest the season's crop while simultaneously threatening to refuse to load the wheat.

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