After the First World War, many Australian veterans settled in the Campion region of Western Australia to become farmers on land provided by the government.

It was there they encountered an enemy far more clever than any which they encountered in Europe.

They fought this enemy with state-of-the-art weapons and vehicles,

yet it still wasn't enough to ensure victory.

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If you haven't been to Australia, it's a really big country.

It's approximately the size of the continental United States, but with the population of Florida and Kentucky combined.

One of the reasons the population density is so low is, one, it's far away from everything, and two, the vast majority of the country is a giant desert.

The Australian government created a program in 1915 to settle military veterans in farmland

to own around the country. By 1920 they had

purchased over 200,000 acres of land and had settled down about 5,000 soldiers, but

they still needed more land. They ended up settling soldiers in some of the marginal land

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