Military historian Mark Dapin takes a road trip through the WA Wheatbelt in search of the sites of the Emu War of 1932. At the heart of the eastern Wheatbelt town of Merredin, Western Australia ...

The emu plume was made famous in World War I but has its origins in the 1890s ... To source the feathers, Mr Kirkman works with an army veteran and southern New South Wales emu farmer, Ian Marston.

Australian soldiers armed with machine guns declared war—on emus. The result? A military embarrassment that’s still hard to ...