Western
Australia - is a state of
Australia on the westcoast
of
Australia, excluding external territories.It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north & west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, & South
Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state & it's capital is Perth.
The 1st human inhabitants of Australia arrived from the north about 40,000 to 60,000 years ago. Over thousands of years they eventually spread across the whole landmass. These Indigenous Australians were long established throughout Western Australia by the time European explorers came in the early 17th century.
Western Australia is home to 1 of the country's leading performance training institutions, the acclaimed Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), as well as a burgeoning theatrical & musical scene.
Sports
Baseball: The Perth Heat compete in the Australian
Baseball League.
Basketball: The Perth Wildcats (men) and Perth Lynx (women) compete in the National Basketball League & Women's National Basketball League, respectively
Netball: The West Coast Fever compete in the ANZ Championship.
Popular food here
Pavlova
Manjimup Truffles by Superior Perigord Truffles
Wine & craft beer
Seafood
Lamb & Lupins
Pasta
Meat pies
Kangaroo meat
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Western
Australia :
The Emu Wars , aka the Great Emu war
In 1932 to address public concern over the number of emus said to be destroying crops in the Campion district within the Wheatbelt of Western
Australia. The unsuccessful attempts to curb the population of emus, a large flightless bird indigenous to Australia, employed Royal Australian Artillery soldiers armed with machine guns , rifles & jeeps leading the media to adopt the name "Emu War" when referring to the incident. While a number of the birds were killed, the emu population persisted & continued to cause crop destruction.
By
December 1932,
word of the Emu War had spread, reaching the
UK. Some conservationists there protested the cull as "extermination of the rare emu".Dominic Serventy & Hubert Whittell, the eminent Australian ornithologists, described the "war" as "an attempt at the mass destruction of the birds".
Throughout 1930s onward, exclusion barrier fencing became a popular means of keeping emus out of agricultural areas (in addition to other vermin, such as dingoes & rabbits).
It lasted from 2 November ,1932 – 10
December, 1932
(1 month, 1 week and 1 day)
Long story
short the Emu birds won.
