The Great Emu War of 1932

Today was pretty relaxing I guess you could say. I did my research on the Emu War for Model UN. I'll give you some background information on the war. 

Basically, this is in 1932 during the Great Depression. In Australia, the Prime Minister gave his full support to Britain in the war. Citizens enlisted as soldiers and there were tons of deaths and casualties. This caused the government in Australia to rely on farmers even more because the majority of the other citizens were taking subsidies. 

However, the farmers were also having a hard time since there was a drought and also because of emus. Emus are these fast, strong birds that are close relatives to the ostrich. It just so happened to be their mating season so around 20,000 emus came from the coast to the Campion District of Western Australia for breeding. And they wanted to take the farmland there as their own. This wasn't too hard for them considering their numbers and physical conditioning. 

They can run like 30 something kilometers per hour which is faster than any car back at that time. Also, their talons could shred through metal, allowing them to break the fences of the farmland that were guarding the crops. Breaking the fences resulted in other creatures like rabbits to go into the farmland and eat the crops as well. 

As you can see, this puts even more economic strain on Australia, so the government acted with haste and sent a team out to kill the emus. However, they clearly underestimated the birds as they only sent three men with two machine guns. 

The three-man squad wasn't that successful and after two attempts they had only killed 986 emus out of the roughly 20,000 emus that were ravaging the lands. By this time they had already used up 10,000 bullets. 

In the end, the emus won the war by outlasting the humans. Essentially the controversy is on whether or not we should've killed the emus since they're the national bird of Australia but then again they were a large factor of why the farmers weren't growing enough crops to supply the people. 

Later on, I called up Psi and I asked him for his opinion on the war. He also agreed with killing the emus. Although they were indeed the national bird, the people living in Australia should be considered as an even higher priority. 

Hmm oh and then finally the tutoring session. Sigh, well it didn't go as expected. The student didn't show up and didn't say anything either. I believe they're still trying to figure out what's going on. I'll need to ask the coordinator again tomorrow. Wow, I'm still really tired. I'll go to sleep now, good night