Wheatbelt
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Sep 26, 2026
Adam SimpsonPANELIST
arc of Longmuir.
Adam SimpsonPANELIST
So he grows up in the Wheatbelt, wants to
Gerard WhateleyHOST
be a farmer.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
He's too prodigiously talented as a footballer not to enter the system.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
What does that even mean? I love the story arc of Longmuir.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
So he grows up in the Wheatbelt, wants to be a farmer.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
He's too prodigiously talented as a footballer not to enter the system.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
He gets drafted as the great hope.
Gary KentHOST
And it happened right here in Campion, Western Australia.
Gary KentHOST
While the Great Depression gripped the country, farmers around Campion in the Wheatbelt, northwest of the capital city, Perth, faced an invasion unlike any other.
Gary KentHOST
It was an invasion of 20,000 strong.
Gary KentHOST
Some 20,000 emus were systematically destroying their crops and so their livelihood.
Gary KentHOST
Desperate for solutions during already dire economic times, the government made an extraordinary decision to deploy the military against the feathered invasion force and it became one of the most peculiar conflicts in the annals of warfare.
Gary KentHOST
Join me, Gary Kent, as we investigate the Great Emu War, one of the strangest chapters in military history, where strategy met stubborn birds and the Australian military faced its most unconventional enemy.
Gary KentHOST
Tucked away in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, Campion is a fascinating reminder of a bygone era.
Gary KentHOST
It was once a bustling hub for agriculture, but today it is deserted, and all that remains of the abandoned town site are these signs.
Catherine ShelfoutCORRESPONDENT
And maybe if you're in that heavy area that I mentioned, sort of 25 to 35 millimetres.
Catherine ShelfoutCORRESPONDENT
If you're in the central west and western parts of the Wheatbelt, you won't get much at all, maybe just zero to two millimetres.
Catherine ShelfoutCORRESPONDENT
Sunday is the most significant day.
Catherine ShelfoutCORRESPONDENT
So we will see showers and thunderstorms across most of the southwest land division, except for the far northwest.
Catherine ShelfoutCORRESPONDENT
So for...
Catherine ShelfoutCORRESPONDENT
Much of eastern parts of the southwest land division, we can expect to see some areas getting damaging wind gusts, large hail and heavy rainfall.
Catherine ShelfoutCORRESPONDENT
So the risk area there is most of the Wheatbelt, the Great Southern and the Great Southern and parts of the south coastal district.
Catherine ShelfoutCORRESPONDENT
So east of about York to Mandrumup, if you can imagine a line there.
Jared LucasCORRESPONDENT
Oh, long-suffering Fremantle fans is what we're being told about it.
Jared LucasCORRESPONDENT
I spoke to a lady from Corrigan in WA's Wheatbelt named Val Downing.
Jared LucasCORRESPONDENT
She's been a member for more than 20 years and every home game they get on a bus from the Wheatbelt and jump into Perth to go watch their Dockers.
Jared LucasCORRESPONDENT
It's just a ritual for them and And there are many years of support in tougher times is paying off.
Jared LucasCORRESPONDENT
So said she was at the 2013 grand final and wasn't going to miss this one.
Grace AbbottCORRESPONDENT
So breaking down the rainfall, starting with Friday, the focus is really in the east, so five to twenty millimeters possible about and east of Esperance, uh, with possible heavy falls under those thunderstorms.
Grace AbbottCORRESPONDENT
Um, two to ten millimeters about the South Coast, uh, for the remaining parts of the South Coast, and less than two millimeters in the Wheatbelt and the Great Southern.
Grace AbbottCORRESPONDENT
Moving into Saturday, our models, yeah, still aren't in great agreement about the position, um, so these are pretty preliminary figures, but it does look like we may see five to twenty-five millimeters, but isolated fifty plus in storms if you're east of Walpole and south of Lake Grace.
Grace AbbottCORRESPONDENT
Two to fifteen millimeters in the Great Southern and below ten for the Wheatbelt, and only light falls reaching those in the central west.
Grace AbbottCORRESPONDENT
And by Sunday, that low looks to move offshore to the south or the southwest, um, and moderate falls may continue over southern coastal districts, Bel.
Belinda VarischettiHOST
Bel.Grace, thank you very much.
Mark DuffieldHOST
Of course, David Hatt said Justin Longmuir came from Wongan, Ballagio.
Mark DuffieldHOST
He actually grew up in Korda, which is a small rural town and farming community in the Wheatbelt, 230 kilometres east of Perth.
Mark DuffieldHOST
And another one in 2013, anonymous texter asked who was to present the cup in 2013 should the Dockers have won.
Mark DuffieldHOST
And the answer to that, of course, was Peter Bell, who was named as the club's presenter for that grand final, which they lost by 15 points to Hawthorne.
Hedley ThomasGUEST
You know, Ray McQueen was th- the son of a farmer, the grandson of a farmer.
Hedley ThomasGUEST
Uh, he had grown up in, um, a farm in the heart of the Wheatbelt, in a little town called Beulah, where parts of the amazing movie, The Dry, based on Jane Harper's book, were filmed.
Hedley ThomasGUEST
And Beulah is now, you know, sadly, a community that's, you know, really lost a lot of its vitality.
Hedley ThomasGUEST
But once upon a time, this place, Beulah, had great prospects.
ArdeetHOST
Yeah.
ArdeetHOST
This Reef Lescanultia, the plants are only a few centimetres high, but the wreaths go up to about 50 centimetres across, and it's characteristic of the Wheatbelt and Geraldton sand plains, and it's widely treated as a highlight of the wildflower country.
ArdeetHOST
Donkey orchids and other orchids and grevilleas and haikias and myrtles occur on the roadsides as well and in the Dukanuka Reserve.
ArdeetHOST
In fact, there was a grevillea and a haikia next to a donkey orchid when a bee pollinated it and said, there you go, donkey.
ArdeetHOST
Yeah.
ArdeetHOST
This Reef Lescanultia, the plants are only a few centimetres high, but the wreaths go up to about 50 centimetres across, and it's characteristic of the Wheatbelt and Geraldton sand plains, and it's widely treated as a highlight of the wildflower country.
ArdeetHOST
Donkey orchids and other orchids and grevilleas and haikias and myrtles occur on the roadsides as well and in the Dukanuka Reserve.
ArdeetHOST
In fact, there was a grevillea and a haikia next to a donkey orchid when a bee pollinated it and said, there you go, donkey.
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