Bedourie, Queensland

Bedourie Queensland
Kidman's Tree of Knowledge on Glengyle Station, 2005
Bedourie
Coordinates	24°21′0″S 139°28′0″E / 24.35000°S 139.46667°E / -24.35000; 139.46667Coordinates: 24°21′0″S 139°28′0″E / 24.35000°S 139.46667°E / -24.35000; 139.46667
Population	283 (2011 census (including Birdsville))
Postcode(s)	4829
Location	1,603 km (996 mi) W of Brisbane 483 km (300 mi) S of Mount Isa 194 km (121 mi) S of Boulia
LGA(s)	Shire of Diamantina
State electorate(s)	Mount Isa
Federal Division(s)	Maranoa
Localities around Bedourie: Northern Territory Sturt Amaroo Wills Northern Territory Bedourie Diamantina Lakes Northern Territory Birdsville Farrars Creek, Farrars Creek

Bedourie is a small town and locality in the Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia. In the 2011 census, Bedourie (including Birdsville) had a population of 283 people.

Bedourier is located in the Channel Country of Central West Queensland, Australia, lying on Eyre Creek. It is located 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) west of the state capital, Brisbane, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) 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.

Bedourie Post Office opened around July 1903 (receiving offices known as Bidouri, Bedouri and Bedourie had been open since 1887).

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.

Birdsville has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

Bedourie 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.