Bedourie

Bedourie is a small town and locality in the Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia.GeographyBedourie is located in the Channel Country of Central West Queensland, Australia, lying on Eyre Creek. It is located 1600km west of the state capital, Brisbane, and 200km north of Birdsville.Bedourie is the administrative centre of the Diamantina Shire, which also comprises the towns of Birdsville and Betoota.When the Georgina River experiences severe floods the town can be cut off by road for months at a time.HistoryBedourie Post Office opened around July 1903 .The Dianmantina Shire Council moved its headquarters from Birdsville to Bedourie in 1953.At the 2006 census, Bedourie and the surrounding area had a population of 142. Twenty years earlier the town had 60 residents.Heritage listingsBirdsville has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Glengyle Station: Kidman's Tree of KnowledgeAmenitiesBedourie has an aquatic centre, library, museum, outback golf course, visitor information centre and a hotel built from adobe bricks in the 1880s and a racetrack.