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I miss the "war box" one where it listed the opposing factions leadership and the Great Emu Emperor. Also, in the casualty box, Australia's listed 10,000 rounds of ammunition and their dignity.

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LOL apparently there's a long history of those edits, reverting + protecting the page, un-protecting it, and it happening again.

Here's one: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emu_War&oldid=477...

We have this weird self-depreciating pride about losing the War, and like to talk it up a bit. It doesn't surprise me that a bunch of larrikans keep trying to put it back on the page. Pushing back against Wiki's uptight rules on seriousness like this is a great example of the subversive Aussie humour. Good on 'em!

I've never seen the term for my username in the wild outside of a thesaurus and a band that was popular a long time ago.

That emu face in the primary pic is just perfect.

For some details, just having a citation entry is perfect:

"[18] Request to Use Bombs to Kill Emus, The (Adelaide) Mail, (Saturday, 3 July 1943), p.12."

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(From "Aftermath: Despite the problems encountered with the cull, the farmers of the region once again requested military assistance in 1934, 1943, and 1948, only to be turned down by the government.[2][18]")

I can only hope that it comes back, I've laughed so hard at that little overview box so many times...

Absurdity, if truly representative of the truth, shouldn't be hidden it should be remembered for what it was even if that invokes giggles and laughs.

Tangentially related, I think this is now the only war article on Wikipedia featuring non-human combatants since the admins have reverted the Emu War one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War

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