Bedourie is a small town located in the Channel Country

Channel Country

The Channel Country is region of outback Australia located mostly in the state of Queensland but also in portions of South Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales. The name comes from the numerous intertwined rivulets that cross the region, which cover 150,000 km²...

 of western Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

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, lying on Eyre Creek. It is located 1600 kilometres west of the state capital, Brisbane

Brisbane

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, and 200 kilometres north of Birdsville

Birdsville, Queensland

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. At the 2006 census

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, Bedourie and the surrounding area had a population of 142. Twenty years earlier the town had 60 residents.

Bedourie is the administrative centre of the Diamantina Shire

Diamantina Shire Council

The Shire of Diamantina is a Local Government Area located in Central West Queensland, bordering South Australia and the Northern Territory. Like most places in Queensland with the "Diamantina" name, it was named after Lady Diamantina Bowen , the wife of the first governor of Queensland, Sir George...

, which also comprises the towns of Birdsville and Betoota. The Shire Council moved from Birdsville to Bedourie in 1953.

Bedourie has an aquatic centre, a hotel built from adobe bricks in the 1880s and a racetrack. When the Georgina River

Georgina River

The Georgina River is the north-westernmost of the three major rivers of the Channel Country in western Queensland that flow in extremely wet years into Lake Eyre.-Geography:...

experiences severe floods the town can be cut off by road for months at a time.