Young Aussie praised for 'speaking the hard truth' about life Down Under when quizzed by a stranger in London: 'Didn't see that coming'

Young Aussie praised for 'speaking the hard truth' about life Down Under when quizzed by a stranger in London: 'Didn't see that coming' An Aussie floored thousands with her brutal and 'educated' take on our history READ MORE: Daughter forced to make group apology to the Stolen Generation By Amanda Bechara For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:46, 19 August 2024 | Updated: 05:03, 19 August 2024 e-mail View comments A 'brave' young woman has been praised by thousands of Aussies for her honest, brutal and 'educated' take on life Down Under. Lawrence, the creator behind Surgen TV , gave the Aussie traveller in London a pop quiz on facts about Australia which she passed with flying colours. But the interview took a surprising turn with his next question: 'Tell me something most people don't know about Australia.

' And her now-viral response was something that nobody saw coming. 'We actually had a thing called The Great Emu war, which involved people in the army fighting against emus - and it lasted about a month,' the unidentified Aussie said. She was referring to a little-known 1932 gun battle in WA that waged war on huge mobs of emus that destroyed crops of wheat on their annual coastal migration.

The resilient native birds survived the skirmishes leading the government to build the State Barrier Fence: a 1200 km railing that protected the farms and their crops. But the Aussie didn't stop at the Great Emu War, and continued to impress Lawrence - and thousands of Australians - wi.