| November 2nd, 2032- reporter Jane Joyce meets with Professor Joel Hastings for a special report for the 100 year anniversary of Australia's Great Emu War |
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 | Professor Hastings, it's so good to speak to you. What do you have to say about today? | |
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| It's good to be here. One hundred years ago today, in 1932, the Australian military began a wildlife management operation against local emu populations. | |
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| I hadn't thought emus were dangerous! | |
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| They aren't. The problem was that they were destroying crops. | |
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| "Some 20,000 emus migrated in from the coast, looking for food and water. They congregated in farmlands full of ripe wheat, eating what they pleased and spoiling the rest. That would've been bad enough as it is, but this was 1932, during the peak of the Great Depression. No farmer could afford the loss of income the emus were causing." |
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