If there’s one bird you don’t want to get into a fight with, it’s an emu. In 1932, the Australian army launched a full-scale ...

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The Emu War of 1932 began after thousands of emus damaged crops in Western Australia, prompting the government to deploy soldiers armed with machine guns. The operation failed as the birds scattered ...

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In 1932, the Australian Army went to war against emus. No, that’s not a euphemism. Known as The Emu War, the campaign lasted for a little over a month and had the stated goal of stopping the wild emu ...

In 1932, something extraordinary happened in Australia: the army went to war — not against another nation, but against emus. These large, flightless birds were trampling crops, and military forces ...

Goodspeed Musicals has new video footage of The Great Emu War, a new musical based on a true story of Australian farmers declaring war on emus. The Great Emu War ran from Oct. 3 – Oct. 26 at Goodspeed ...

CHESTER — In 1932 the Australian government took military action to address the growing emu population in western provinces to very mixed results. Sounds like a great plot for a musical comedy, right?

Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia's coast.

Australia is grappling with trying to investigate veterans accused of misconduct during the long war in Afghanistan, while the price tag for litigation keeps rising. The Australian government has ...

The second and final world premiere musical of the 2025 season at Goodspeed Musicals’ Terris Theatre in Chester is a sprightly, extremely silly and unfortunately lightweight comedy about a real ...