Jul 22, 2026 · 18 min · 9 segments
When you hear Emu War, the first thing that comes to mind is probably a war between birds. Nope. This is Emus Vs. The Australian Army Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar…
We were talking about emus.
In the war.
And war.
Specifically, we're going to spin back the clock a little bit to World War I. Oh, wow.
So it was trench warfare.
Well, the war had ended.
But after all these soldiers come back, Australia realizes, huh, we got a lot of veterans.
Maybe not as many as we should have.
Not as many soldiers we sent over.
But a lot of them did come back.
We'd like to have had more, but it's still a lot.
I mean, ideally, you have no veterans in that you don't do the war in the first
place.
But I was going to say, yeah, you always want more veterans, generally.
Okay.
But so they've got a lot of veterans and they also don't have jobs to keep them busy.
So fortunately for Australia, there's something else that they had a lot of.
And that was land.
Nothing but literally it's just so much.
Some of it's even habitable.
Some of it
was already habited.
That too.
So starting in 1915, Australia started handing out plots of farmland to returning soldiers.
And then it would be on the soldiers to convert that land into something productive.
We were talking about emus.
In the war.
And war.
Specifically, we're going to spin back the clock a little bit to World War I. Oh, wow.
So it was trench warfare.
Well, the war had ended.
But after all these soldiers come back, Australia realizes, huh, we got a lot of veterans.
Maybe not as many as we should have.
Not as many soldiers we sent over.
But a lot of them did come back.
We'd like to have had more, but it's still a lot.
I mean, ideally, you have no veterans in that you don't do the war in the first
place.
But I was going to say, yeah, you always want more veterans, generally.
Okay.
But so they've got a lot of veterans and they also don't have jobs to keep them busy.
So fortunately for Australia, there's something else that they had a lot of.
And that was land.
Nothing but literally it's just so much.
Some of it's even habitable.
Some of it
was already habited.
That too.
So starting in 1915, Australia started handing out plots of farmland to returning soldiers.
And then it would be on the soldiers to convert that land into something productive.
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