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The event known as the Emu War constituted an extraordinary example of tension between natural wildlife and human settlement, occurring in 1932 in Western Australia. During this period marked by the economic hardships of the Great Depression, former soldiers who had settled in the Campion region of Western Australia under post-First World War settlement schemes were attempting to sustain themselves through wheat farming. However, the global economic downturn had driven wheat prices to record low