Bundaberg () is the major regional city in the Wide Bay-Burnett region of the state of Queensland, Australia. It is the
ninth largest city in the state.
The Bundaberg
central business district
A central business district (CBD) is the Commerce, commercial and business center of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides wit ...
is situated along the southern bank of the
Burnett River
The Burnett River is a river in the Wide Bay–Burnett and Central Queensland regions of Queensland, Australia.
Course and features
The Burnett River rises in the Burnett Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, close to Mount Gaeta and east ...
about from its mouth at
Burnett Heads, where it flows into the
Coral Sea
The Coral Sea () is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, interim Australian bioregion. The Coral Sea extends down t ...
.
The city is sited on a rich
coastal plain
A coastal plain (also coastal plains, coastal lowland, coastal lowlands) is an area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast. A fall line commonly marks the border between a coastal plain and an upland area.
Formation
Coastal plains can f ...
, supporting one of the nation's most productive agricultural regions. The area of Bundaberg is the home of the
Taribelang-Bunda,
Goreng Goreng, Gurang, and Bailai peoples. The common nickname for Bundaberg is "Bundy", although its history as a major sugar producing region means it is often referenced as the "Rum City" or "Sugar City". The residents of the city are referred to colloquially as 'Bundabergians.' In the , the Bundaberg
urban area
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had a population of 73,747 people.
The district surveyor,
John Thompson Charlton designed the city layout in 1868, which planned for uniform square blocks with wide main streets, and named it ‘Bundaberg’. An early influence on the development of Bundaberg came with the
1868 Land Act, which was a famous
Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...
via media, that aimed to create a class of
Australian yeoman.
Large sugarcane plantations were established throughout the 1880s, with industries of sugar mills, refineries, and rum distilleries that delivered prosperity to Bundaberg. These plantations used
South Sea Islanders
South Sea Islanders, formerly referred to as Kanakas, are the Australian descendants of Pacific Islanders from more than 80 islandsincluding the Oceanian archipelagoes of the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, the Gilbert Islands ...
as
indentured labourers, many of whom were
blackbirded, a practice considered of form of
slavery
Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage. Enslavemen ...
. The
trade was outlawed in 1904, with most
South Sea Islanders
South Sea Islanders, formerly referred to as Kanakas, are the Australian descendants of Pacific Islanders from more than 80 islandsincluding the Oceanian archipelagoes of the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, the Gilbert Islands ...
deported by 1906.
[Tracey Flanagan, Meredith Wilkie, and Susanna Iuliano]
"Australian South Sea Islanders: A Century of Race Discrimination under Australian Law"
, Australian Human Rights Commission. Major floods in 1942 and 1954 damaged the river, ending Bundaberg's role as a
river port and led to a new port at the mouth of the Burnett river. In the
post-war era, Bundaberg continued to grow with its wealth tied to its sugar industry. In 2013, Bundaberg experienced record flooding from
Cyclone Oswald, which was the worst disaster in the city's history.
The economy of Bundaberg is based primarily on
agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...
,
forestry
Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and Natural environment, environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and ...
,
fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment (Freshwater ecosystem, freshwater or Marine ecosystem, marine), but may also be caught from Fish stocking, stocked Body of water, ...
and tourism, with a
gross regional product
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at about $5.62 billion as of June 2023. Bundaberg also has a major distillery and brewery industry that exports to international markets. The city is served by the
Port of Bundaberg and the
Bundaberg Airport.
Bundaberg has a rich history and culture, along with its
humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a subtropical -temperate climate type, characterized by long and hot summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between ...
it is known for its
weeping fig trees,
dry stone walls, and historic plantations, including the
Fairymead Plantation and the
Sunnyside Sugar Plantation, the latter of which is the site of a
mass grave
A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may Unidentified decedent, not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of exec ...
. Other sites of
South Sea Islander cultural significance include
Sir Anthony's Rest atop the
Bundaberg Hummock and the
South Sea Islander Church. Major cultural institutions include the
Hinkler Hall of Aviation and the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery. The city's culinary culture is highlighted by its annual '
Banquet on the Bridge', and an iconic
rum
Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. The distillate, a clear liquid, is often aged in barrels of oak. Rum originated in the Caribbean in the 17th century, but today it is produced i ...
and
gin culture with
Bundaberg Rum
Bundaberg Rum, colloquially known as Bundy, is a dark rum owned by Diageo. It is produced in Bundaberg East, Queensland, Australia, by the Bundaberg Distilling Company. In 2010, the Bundaberg Distilling Company was inducted into the Queensland ...
originating in the city.
Bundaberg is a popular tourism destination, the city's hinterland includes the historic towns of
Childers and
Gin Gin,
Lake Monduran,
Cania Gorge National Park and the
Promisedland mountain bike trails. Bundaberg's coastal areas include
Bargara and
Mon Repos,
Deepwater National Park, and the southernmost reaches of the
Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately . The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, ...
alongside the islands of
Lady Musgrave and
Lady Elliot.
Geography
The city is about north of the state capital,
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia, with a ...
. It is inland from the
Coral Sea
The Coral Sea () is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, interim Australian bioregion. The Coral Sea extends down t ...
coast and situated on the
Burnett River
The Burnett River is a river in the Wide Bay–Burnett and Central Queensland regions of Queensland, Australia.
Course and features
The Burnett River rises in the Burnett Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, close to Mount Gaeta and east ...
.
Etymology
City name
The name was coined by surveyor
John Charlton Thompson and his assistant Alfred Dale Edwards. ''Bunda'' was derived from the name of one of the kinship groups of the local
Taribelang people, and appended with the suffix "berg". Two sources of the suffix have been proposed. It is a Saxon suffix which means "hill". It is also a German word which translates as "mountain", and refers to the
Sloping Hummoch, the singular hill rising above the relatively flat region surrounding the Burnett River on which the city is situated.
Colloquially, the city is widely known throughout Australia as "Bundy". Residents are referred to by the demonym Bundabergian, which is also a corresponding adjective.
Bourbong Street
Bourbong Street is the main street of the city. and there is some controversy in regards to its spelling and meaning. Bourbong was alternatively spelled Bourbon or Boorbong, which was a local Aboriginal title given to a large waterhole in the area. The main street was historically also gazetted in the
Bundaberg Mail as "Bourbon" street, but by 1941 there is no reference to "Bourbon" street. Robert Strathdee's farming selection in the vicinity of the watering holes was recorded on early survey maps as 'Boorbung'.
A pioneer pastoralist of the region,
Nicholas Tooth, wrote that "Bourbong" was derived from the local Aboriginal phrase "bier rabong", meaning "plenty dead". Tooth, who took up land in the area in the early 1860s, found that Aboriginal people resolutely avoided the "bier rabong" vicinity. He later found the skeletal remains there of around twenty Aboriginal people who were apparently massacred in a raid by the
Native Police
Australian native police were specialised mounted military units consisting of detachments of Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal troopers under the command of European officers appointed by British colonial governments. The units existed in va ...
.
History
Early history
The
Traditional owner
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Aboriginal groups in the region are the
Taribelang,
Gooreng GoorengGurang and Bailai peoples. They are the original inhabitants of the region. A determination of
Native Title was made for all four cultural groups by the
National Native Title Tribunal, pursuant to the ''
Native Title Act 1993,'' on 28 November 2017. It was determined that "native title exists in the entire determination area" of Bundaberg,
Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British politican, starting as Conservative MP for Newark and later becoming the leader of the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party.
In a career lasting over 60 years, he ...
, and the
North Burnett.
As such, the Bundaberg Regional Council has reflected this recognition in their "First Nations Strategy 2022-2026", and endeavours to celebrate and embrace the region's "local connections to First Nation Peoples and other cultures".
Initial British colonisation
The first British man to visit the area was
James Davis in the 1830s. He was an escaped convict from the
Moreton Bay Penal settlement who lived with the
Kabi people to the south of the region. He resided mostly around the
Mary River and was referred to as ''Durrumboi''. The Burnett River was surveyed by
John Charles Burnett, after whom it was named during his exploration mission of the Wide Bay and Burnett regions in 1847.
British occupation of the land in the region began in 1848 when
pastoral squatters Gregory Blaxland Jnr and
William Forster established a
sheep station
A sheep station is a large property ( station, the equivalent of a ranch) in Australia or New Zealand, whose main activity is the raising of sheep for their wool and/or meat. In Australia, sheep stations are usually in the south-east or sout ...
. Blaxland was a son of the Blue Mountains explorer,
Gregory Blaxland
Gregory Blaxland (17 June 1778 – 1 January 1853) was an English pioneer farmer and explorer in Australia, noted especially for initiating and co-leading the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains by European settlers.
Early life ...
, and Forster was later to become a
Premier of New South Wales
The premier of New South Wales is the head of government in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Government of New South Wales follows the Westminster system, Westminster Parliamentary System, with a Parliament of New South Wales actin ...
. They selected a very large area of land which encompassed most of the western part of the modern day
Bundaberg Region along the
Burnett River
The Burnett River is a river in the Wide Bay–Burnett and Central Queensland regions of Queensland, Australia.
Course and features
The Burnett River rises in the Burnett Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, close to Mount Gaeta and east ...
. They named this pastoral lease Tirroan.
Blaxland and Forster had previously set up sheep stations near the
Clarence River and had a notable history of conflict with Aboriginal people. Sheep stations imposed on native bushland disrupt native food production, typically resulting in widespread hunger and illness amongst native peoples. Conflict continued at Tirroan when two of their shepherds were killed by Aboriginal people in 1849. Forster and Blaxland led a
punitive expedition causing multiple Aboriginal deaths. Further conflict occurred the following year when Blaxland was clubbed to death. Forster and a number of other squatters conducted another reprisal, resulting in a large massacre of Aboriginal people in scrubland toward the coastal part of Tirroan.
In the early 1850s, Forster sold the property to
Alfred Henry Brown who changed the name of the pastoral lease to Gin Gin. At the same time,
Native Police
Australian native police were specialised mounted military units consisting of detachments of Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal troopers under the command of European officers appointed by British colonial governments. The units existed in va ...
officer,
Richard Purvis Marshall, took up the Bingera leasehold in the rainforest scrubland downstream from Tirroan. Three towns in the Bundaberg region,
Tirroan,
South Bingera and
Gin Gin, commemorate these massive initial leaseholds.
Cattle and logging

Before colonisation, much of the land around the lower reaches of the Burnett River consisted of either the Woongarra Scrub, a subtropical rainforest that stood where most of the Bundaberg canefields now grow, or the Barolin Plains, a lightly timbered grassland that stretched along the coastal fringe. Neither of these areas were suitable for sheep farming but the British soon found that raising cattle was possible. In the early 1860s the first cattle stations in the area were established;
Branyan on the south side of the Burnett River and
Tantitha on the north side.
Timber companies, such as that owned by
William Pettigrew, started the logging of the Woongarra Scrub in 1867.
In 1868,
Samuel Johnston erected a sawmill in
Waterview, on the north bank of the
Burnett River
The Burnett River is a river in the Wide Bay–Burnett and Central Queensland regions of Queensland, Australia.
Course and features
The Burnett River rises in the Burnett Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, close to Mount Gaeta and east ...
.
The Waterview sawmill became a prominent supplier of timber until its closure in 1903 after being damaged by flood.
Town of Bundaberg
In 1867, timber-getters and farmers, John and Gavin Steuart, established the Woondooma property which consisted of a few houses and a wharf on the northern banks of the Burnett River where
Bundaberg North now stands.
An official survey of the area was undertaken in 1869 by
John Charlton Thompson,
assisted by James Ellwood and Alfred Dale Edwards,
[''Bundaberg – From Pioneers to Prosperity.'' (1992) Neville Rackemann. p46 ] and the town of Bundaberg was gazetted across the river on the higher, southern banks. The first Bundaberg land sale was held in
Maryborough on 11 May 1870 where hotelier John Foley bought the original lots.
Sugar
Most of the early settlers exploited the timber and grew maize on their selections but as a result of the incentives of the Sugar and Coffee Regulations of 1864, sugar became a major component in Bundaberg's development from the 1870s. Experimental
sugar cane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fib ...
cultivation in the district was first grown at John Charlton Thompson's
Rubyanna property in 1870 and the first sugar mill was built by Richard Elliot Palmer at his
Millbank
Millbank is an area of central London in the City of Westminster. Millbank is located by the River Thames, east of Pimlico and south of Westminster. Millbank is known as the location of major government offices, Burberry headquarters, the Mill ...
plantation in 1872.
Bundaberg rapidly became an important sugar production region after the construction of the Millaquin Sugar Refinery at
East Bundaberg by
Robert Cran and his sons in 1882. The
Fairymead sugar processing plant owned by the Young Brothers (Arthur, Horace and Ernest Young) opened in 1884 which further augmented Bundaberg's sugar producing capacity.
The initial 35 years of the sugar industry in Bundaberg was reliant on
South Sea Islander workers, who were often
blackbirded and kept in a status close to slavery. The first significant shipload of
Kanaka labour, as it was called, to arrive on the Burnett River came in January 1872 aboard the ''Petrel''. Allegations of kidnapping and wounding immediately arose concerning the recruitment of the Islanders on this vessel. Influential Bundaberg plantation owners were able to purchase recruiting ships in order to obtain labour directly from areas such as the
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, t ...
and the
New Hebrides. The Young Brothers owned the ''Lochiel'' and the ''May'' vessels, the Cran family and Frederic Buss were the major investors in the ''Helena'' while the ''Ariel'' was co-owned by a number of local planters. While some of the recruitment was voluntary, violence and deception toward Islanders often took place. For example, the crew of the ''Helena'' fought a battle with the locals of
Ambrym while taking Islanders from there.
These labourers had to work for three years and were only paid at the end of this time period. Instead of cash, they usually received substandard goods and trinkets of minimal value as payment. Excessive mortality of the Islanders while serving their term of labour in the Bundaberg region was frequent. Overwork, poor housing, inadequate food, contaminated water supplies and a lack of medical care all contributed to the high death rate. Penalties for the plantation owners whose neglect resulted in these fatalities were rare and did not exceed a £10 fine. Importing South Sea Islander labour was made illegal in 1904 and enforced repatriation of these workers out of Bundaberg and other locations in Queensland occurred from 1906 to 1908.
The
1911 Queensland sugar strike occurred after the phasing out of
South Sea Islander labour, with workers claiming that many plantation owners had substituted black indentured labourers (sometimes referred to as slaves) with white ones. Workers sought better accommodation, wages and conditions, including an eight-hour day and a minimum weekly wage of 30 shillings, including food. The mobilisation of unionists from Bundaberg to
Mossman was a major achievement, with the 1911 strike lasting over seven weeks in Bundaberg where the town's economy was largely based on the sugar industry.
[Janette Nolan, Bundaberg, history and people, St Lucia: University of Queensland press, 1978, p. 147.] The end result of the strike was a Commonwealth Royal Commission into the sugar industry in 1911–12, which had been initially requested by Harry Hall, a Bundaberg AWA organiser in 1908 with a petition signed by 1500 Bundaberg sugar workers.
Brisbane Courier
''The Courier-Mail'' is an Australian newspaper published in Brisbane. Owned by News Corp Australia, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner norther ...
, 21 October 1908, p.5; Nolan, p. 146. The Royal Commission, with ALF Secretary
Albert Hinchcliffe as secretary, concluded the AWA demands had been justified. The union victory was a watershed in organised labour in Queensland and Australia.
[Dr K H Kennedy, "The Rise of the Amalgamated Workers Association" in Lectures on North Queensland History, James Cook University, Second Series 1975, pp. 198–199.]
Further progress
St Joseph's School opened in June 1876.
With the passage of the ''Local Authorities Act 1902'', Barolin Division became the
Shire of Barolin and the Borough of Bundaberg became the
Town of Bundaberg on 31 March 1903. On 22 November 1913, Bundaberg was proclaimed a City.
In 1912 Bundaberg pioneering aviator
Bert Hinkler built and successfully flew his own glider on
Mon Repos beach. He also completed a noteworthy non-stop flight from London to Turin in 1920. The following year in 1921 Hinkler flew from
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...
to Bundaberg, non-stop, in a record breaking flight of 8 and a half hours, in the process beating a telegram he had sent to his mother, to warn her of his arrival.
The
Bundaberg War Memorial commemorating those who died in the
Anglo-Boer War and World War I was unveiled by
Major-General Charles Brand on 30 July 1921. The Bundaberg digger was imported from Italy and is constructed of Italian marble. The completed memorial, at a cost of £1,650, was the third most costly to be erected in Queensland. It is a major regional memorial and one of the two most intact digger memorials that remain in their original settings of intersections.
The
Bundaberg tragedy of 1928 resulted in the deaths of 12 children in a 24-hour period after they were administered a contaminated
diphtheria vaccine.
In 1941 the
Sisters of Mercy
The Sisters of Mercy is a religious institute for women in the Catholic Church. It was founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley. In 2019, the institute had about 6,200 Religious sister, sisters worldwide, organized into a number ...
purchased the house ''Brabourne'' (originally owned by prominent citizen Frederick Buss) and established St Mary's Hostel, for women and girls working in or visiting Bundaberg. After
World War II
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, doctors were calling for modern hospital facilities in Bundaberg, so the Sisters converted the hostel into the Mater Private Hospital, a 24-bed hospital with an operating theatre, chapel, and accommodation for the nurses and maids, officially opening on 28 July 1946. The nurses were initially all nuns, but they established a training school for other women to become nurses. The hospital expanded over the years with additional beds, operating theatres, X-ray, pathology and a dedicated children's ward. It was the first hospital in Queensland to use the Zeiss ophthalmic microscope, the first regional hospital in Queensland to have a
lymphoedema clinic, and to use
facial recognition technology for
endoscopic sinus surgery.
In the 1960s the township was completely flooded by the Burnett river. In 1967 Bundaberg celebrated its centenary by producing a coin and opening
The Bundaberg and District Historical Museum in the
Bundaberg Botanical Gardens in
Bundaberg North.
Bundaberg in the 21st century
In December 2010, Bundaberg suffered its worst
floods
A flood is an overflow of water (list of non-water floods, or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are of significant con ...
in 60 years, when floodwaters from the Burnett River inundated hundreds of homes.
Two years later, in January 2013, Bundaberg experienced its worst flooding in recorded history as a result of
Cyclone Oswald. Floodwaters from the Burnett River peaked at 9.53 metres. Over 4,000 properties and 600 businesses had been affected by floodwaters, which moved in excess of . Two defence force Blackhawk helicopters were brought in from Townsville as part of the evacuation operation, which ultimately used an additional 14 aircraft.
On 6 April 2018,
Prince Charles
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms.
Charles was born at Buckingham Palace during the reign of his maternal grandfather, King George VI, and ...
visited Bundaberg Rum Distillery
He stated, ''“I'm thrilled that this Distillery's proving to be the one that produces some of the most famous and special of all rums around the world."''
In 2018, the
Australian Bureau of Statistics
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estimated the population of Bundaberg's significant urban area was 70,921 people.
[ Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018.]
Demographics
In the , the city of Bundaberg had a population of 50,148 people.
In the 2016 Census, there were 69,069 people in Bundaberg (Significant Urban Area). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 4.3% of the population. 81.2% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 3.2%, New Zealand 1.8%, Philippines 0.7%, South Africa 0.5% and Scotland 0.4%. 88.9% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 0.5%, Italian 0.4%, German 0.3%, Afrikaans 0.2% and Tagalog 0.2%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 26.3%, Catholic 18.7% and Anglican 18.6%.
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In the , Bundaberg's
urban area
An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas originate through urbanization, and researchers categorize them as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbani ...
has a population of 73,747 people.
Heritage listings

Bundaberg has a number of
heritage-listed sites, including:
* Corner of Bargara Road and Zeilke Avenue, Kalkie:
Kalkie State School
* Bourbong Street, Bundaberg Central:
Bourbong Street Weeping Figs
* Bourbong Street, Bundaberg Central:
Bundaberg War Memorial
* Bourbong Street, West Bundaberg:
Bundaberg War Nurses Memorial
* Bourbong Street between Bundaberg Central and Bundaberg East:
Kennedy Bridge
*155a Bourbong Street:
Bundaberg Post Office
* 184 Bourbong Street, Bundaberg Central:
Bundaberg School of Arts
* 191–193 Bourbong Street, Bundaberg Central:
Commercial Bank
A commercial bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and gives loans for the purposes of consumption and investment to make a profit.
It can also refer to a bank or a division of a larger bank that deals with whol ...
* 13 Crofton Street:
Bundaberg Central State School
* 30 George Street, South Bundaberg:
St John's Lutheran Church
* 46 Johnston Street, Millbank:
South Sea Islander Church
* 1 Maryborough Street, Bundaberg Central:
Fallon House
* corner of Maryborough and Woongarra Streets, Bundaberg Central:
St Andrews Uniting Church
* Quay Street, Bundaberg Central:
Bundaberg Police Station
* Quay Street, Bundaberg Central, to Perry Street, Bundaberg North:
Burnett Bridge
* Quay Street, from Bundaberg Central to Bundaberg East:
Saltwater Creek Railway Bridge
* Sir Anthony's Rest Street, Qunaba:
Sir Anthony's Rest
* 17 Sussex Street, East Bundaberg:
East Bundaberg Water Tower
* Thornhill Street, Bundaberg North:
Fairymead House
* 55 Woongarra Street:
4BU Radio Station
* Cnr Woongarra and Maryborough streets, Bundaberg Central:
Christ Church, Bundaberg The church sits adjacent to
Buss Park which contains a memorial to
Bert Hinkler.
Climate
Bundaberg has a warm
humid subtropical climate
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(
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* Bernd Köppen (1951–2014), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author ...
: Cfa) with hot, wet summers and very mild, dry winters. Mean maximum temperatures are high for most of the year, from in July to in January. Annual rainfall averages around , with a strong summer maximum and winter minimum. Extreme temperatures ranged from on 16 July 1918 to on 19 December 1901.
Suburbs of Bundaberg

Increasing population in Bundaberg is extending residential development into rural localities, such as
Ashfield.
Economy
Subtropical
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Bundaberg is dependent to a large extent on the local sugar industry. Extensive
sugar cane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fib ...
fields have been developed throughout the district. Value-adding operations, such as the milling and refinement of sugar, and its packaging and distribution, are located around the city. A local factory that manufactured sugar-cane harvesters was closed down after it was taken over by the US
multinational corporation
A multinational corporation (MNC; also called a multinational enterprise (MNE), transnational enterprise (TNE), transnational corporation (TNC), international corporation, or stateless corporation, is a corporate organization that owns and cont ...
Case New Holland. Most of the raw sugar is exported.
A bulk terminal for the export of sugar is located on the Burnett River east of Bundaberg. Recent years have seen the reduction of cane farms and in turn increase of Macadamia farms, whoms main market is China.
Another of the city's exports is
Bundaberg Rum
Bundaberg Rum, colloquially known as Bundy, is a dark rum owned by Diageo. It is produced in Bundaberg East, Queensland, Australia, by the Bundaberg Distilling Company. In 2010, the Bundaberg Distilling Company was inducted into the Queensland ...
, made from the sugar cane by-product
molasses
Molasses () is a viscous byproduct, principally obtained from the refining of sugarcane or sugar beet juice into sugar. Molasses varies in the amount of sugar, the method of extraction, and the age of the plant. Sugarcane molasses is usuall ...
. Bundaberg is also home to beverage producer
Bundaberg Brewed Drinks Vintage Soda
In winemaking, vintage is the process of picking grapes to create wine. A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certain wines, it can denote quality, as in Port win ...
, Craft Brewery
Ballistic Brewing Company and Craft Distillery's
Waterview Distillery and
Kalki Moon.
Commercial fruit and vegetable production is also significant: avocado, banana, bean, button squash, capsicum, chilli, citrus, cucumber, custard apple, egg fruit, honeydew melon, lychee, mango, passionfruit, potato, pumpkin, rockmelon, snow peas, stone fruit, sweet corn, sweet potato, tomato, watermelon, zucchini. Macadamia nuts are also grown. Due to the year-round farm work available in Bundaberg, the city has a high number of working hostels for backpackers looking to extend their
working holiday visa in Australia. The hostels provide backpackers with work on farms across the Bundaberg area. However, the hostels and farms have received huge criticism in the press and on social media due to the treatment some backpackers have faced.
The Courier-Mail
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have reported claims of poor living conditions, underpayment and allegations of sexual abuse which they say has led to backpackers warning others about working hostels in Bundaberg.
Because of its high rate of unemployment, Bundaberg has been referred to as the "dole capital of Australia".
Tourism
Tourism is an important industry in Queensland, and Bundaberg is known as the 'Southern Gateway to the
Great Barrier Reef
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'.
The city lies near the southern end of the reef in proximity to
Lady Elliot and
Lady Musgrave Islands. The nearby town of
Bargara is an increasingly popular holiday and retirement destination.

Nearby beaches are popular with both locals and tourists.
Moore Park Beach, to the city's north, has of golden sandy beach. Beaches on the southern side of the Burnett River are (from north to south) the Oaks Beach, Mon Repos, Nielson Park, Bargara Beach, Kellys Beach, Innes Park and
Elliott Heads.
Cania Gorge National Park,
Deepwater National Park,
Eurimbula National Park and
Kinkuna National Park, located in the Bundaberg region are popular with campers and bush-lovers.
Tours of the
Bundaberg Rum
Bundaberg Rum, colloquially known as Bundy, is a dark rum owned by Diageo. It is produced in Bundaberg East, Queensland, Australia, by the Bundaberg Distilling Company. In 2010, the Bundaberg Distilling Company was inducted into the Queensland ...
distillery
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and attractions at
Bundaberg Botanic Gardens, such as the
2 ft narrow gauge Australian Sugar Cane Railway, are also popular with tourists.
The
Mystery Craters, 35 unexplained water-filled holes in the ground, discovered in 1971 at
South Kolan, are also a tourist attraction.
Opened in 2002 by the former
member
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* Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon
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* In object-oriented programming, a member of a class
** Field (computer science), entries in ...
for
Hinkler Paul Neville, the Tom Quinn Community Centre gardens (a multiple "Bundy in Bloom" winner) is a site to be seen with local flora and fauna, its own cafe, marketplace, chapel, green house, training facilities, woodwork and indigenous nature section.
Opened in December 2008, the
Hinkler Hall of Aviation is an historical aviation tourist attraction that celebrates pioneer solo aviator Bert Hinkler. In 1928, Hinkler was the first person to fly solo from England to Australia.
The museum includes an exhibition hall, featuring multi-media exhibits, a flight simulator, a theatre, five aircraft and the historic
Hinkler House.
Other local attractions and events include the Whaling Wall, East Bundaberg Water Tower, Baldwin Swamp Environmental Park, Alexandra Park Zoo,
Buss Park, Barrell House, Bundy in Bloom, Whale watching, reef tours of Lady Musgrave & Lady Elliiot islands, the Bundaberg Show, Bundaberg & Childers Regional Art Galleries, the Bundaberg Gliding school, Fishing Charters, the Bundaberg International Air Show, and the Woongarra Marine Park.
Bundaberg has
ghost tours.
Museums and galleries
The Bundaberg region contains a variety of museums and art galleries that showcase the region's history and culture.
*
Hinkler Hall of Aviation
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Hinkler House
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Fairymead House and Sugar History Museum
* BRAG, the
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery
Bundaberg () is the major regional city in the Wide Bay-Burnett region of the state of Queensland, Australia. It is the List of cities in Australia by population, ninth largest city in the state. The Bundaberg central business district is situa ...
* CHARTS, the
Childers Art Space
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Bundaberg and District Historical Museum
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Bundaberg Railway Museum
*
Bundaberg Rum
Bundaberg Rum, colloquially known as Bundy, is a dark rum owned by Diageo. It is produced in Bundaberg East, Queensland, Australia, by the Bundaberg Distilling Company. In 2010, the Bundaberg Distilling Company was inducted into the Queensland ...
Distillery Tours
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Bundaberg Botanic Gardens containing the 'Hinkler Hall of Aviation', 'Hinkler House', 'Fairymead House' and the 'Bundaberg Steam Tramway Preservation Inc.'
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Mystery Craters in
South Kolan
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Schmeider's Cooperage (Bundy Kegs)
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Bundaberg Ginger Beer
Memorials
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Bundaberg War Memorial
*
Hinkler Memorial
Culture
Arts and entertainment
Bundaberg has two cinemas. The
Reading Cinemas, on Johanna Boulevarde, west Bundaberg, and the Moncrieff Entertainment Centre (formerly known as the
Moncrieff Theatre), located on Bourbong Street, central Bundaberg. The Moncrieff Entertainment Centre also holds live musical and theatrical performances year round.
The Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) is a large multi-purpose visual arts facility located in central Bundaberg. The Bundaberg Regional Council operates a public library at 49 Woondooma Street.
Media
The ''
NewsMail'' newspaper is published in Bundaberg from Monday to Saturday. It is available in print and online.
Several community newspapers are also available including the Guardian, The Bugle & the Bundaberg Coastline
Bundaberg is served by three commercial television stations (
Seven Queensland,
WIN Television
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and
10) and publicly owned services (
ABC TV) and (
SBS).
Local news coverage of Bundaberg and the Wide Bay is provided on all three commercial networks with both ''
Seven News'' and
WIN Queensland's ''
WIN News'' half-hour bulletins airing at 5:30 each weeknight.
Southern Cross Austereo
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also airs brief local news & weather updates at various intervals throughout the day on Channel 10.
Popular culture
The city has featured in several films:
* ''
The Delinquents'' (1989), starring
Kylie Minogue
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, which was set in Bundaberg, but partly shot in Brisbane
* ''
The Mango Tree'' (1977)
* ''
Talking Back at Thunder'' (2014), starring
Steven Tandy
*''
Flathead'' (2024), a
docufiction
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film directed by Jaydon Martin
Sport

Most major Australian sporting codes are played in Bundaberg.
Australian rules
Bundaberg has two current clubs playing in the
AFL Wide Bay competition.
*Across The Waves Bundaberg Eagles (merger of North Bundaberg and Souths/ATW Magpies)
*Brothers Bulldogs (formerly West Bundaberg)
Basketball
Bundaberg has two professional teams competing in the ConocoPhillips Central Queensland Cup. They are the
Bundaberg Bulls (men) and
Bundaberg Bears (women) and both feature local players.
Chess
Bundaberg Chess Club was established in 1985.
Cricket
Bundaberg has five current clubs playing in the Bundaberg Cricket Association competition.
Croquet
Bundaberg Croquet Club is the oldest
Croquet
Croquet ( or ) is a sport which involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called Wicket, "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.
Variations
In all forms of croquet, in ...
club in Australia.
Darts
Bundaberg Darts and Sports Association host's tournaments monthly.
Golf
Bundaberg has
Bargara Golf Club, Bundaberg Golf Club and
Coral Cove Golf Club.
Rowing
Bucca Weir, west of Bundaberg, is an eight lane rowing course home to
Bundaberg Rowing Club. It hosts the Queensland School's Championship Regatta each year in September, as well as numerous local regattas.
Rugby league
The
Bundaberg Rugby Football League is a nine-club competition run under the
Queensland Rugby League's Central Division. Bundaberg competes in the Central Division's 47th Battalion Shield and the
Bundaberg Grizzlies formerly competed in the
Queensland Cup
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statewide competition.
Rugby union
Bundaberg and District Rugby Union is the governing body for Rugby union and run's a competition.
Teams are:
*
Alloway Falcons
*
Bundaberg Barbarians
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East Coast Buccaneers
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Isis Crushers
Soccer
The Bundaberg Soccer Football Association was formed at the Grand Hotel on 1 May 1923. In 2023 Bundaberg Football will celebrate the centenary of formation of the Association, however there's evidence that soccer football has been played in Bundaberg and surrounding districts since at least the 1890's.
Bundaberg was home to the
Bundaberg Spirit soccer club. They participated in the
Queensland State League against other teams across Queensland.
Tennis
The Bundaberg & District Tennis Senior Association operates eleven floodlit clay courts in Drinan Park, Bundaberg West at the corner of George & Powers Streets.
Competition tennis is played all year round. The Bundaberg & District Junior Tennis Association operates five artificial grass courts, and two granite courts.
Community groups
The Bundaberg branch of the
Queensland Country Women's Association meets at the QCWA Hall at 15 Quay Street, Bundaberg Central.
The Hinkler branch of the
Queensland Country Women's Association meets at the McDonalds Central Bundaberg on the corner of Woongarra & Targo Street, Bundaberg Central.
Education
There are many public and private primary schools in Bundaberg. Bundaberg South State School opened on 11 May 1891, with an enrollment of 167 students and under the direction of William Benbow.
The school celebrated its 125-year anniversary in 2016.
Bundaberg has three public high schools, Bundaberg North State High School which opened on 29 January 1974,
Bundaberg State High School which opened on 30 January 1912
(the second-oldest high school in Queensland that is still open)
and Kepnock State High School which opened on 28 January 1964.
There are also three main private secondary schools:
Shalom Catholic College,
St Luke's Anglican School, and
Bundaberg Christian College.
There is a campus of the Wide Bay Institute of
Technical and further education
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on Walker St and a campus of the
Central Queensland University, located adjacent to the airport. There is a campus of the
Booth College
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at the
Salvation Army
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's Tom Quinn Community Centre.
Transport
Bundaberg Airport has flights to Brisbane and Lady Elliot Island. The city is home to the
Jabiru Aircraft
Jabiru Aircraft Pty Ltd is an Australian aircraft manufacturer that produces a range of kitplane, kit- and ready-built civil light aircraft in Bundaberg, Queensland. The company also designs and manufactures a range of light aircraft engines. ...
Company, which designs and manufactures a range of small civil utility aircraft.
Bundaberg's bus operator is Duffy's City Buses. As of 2013, they transport over 1000 passengers in town services, and over 2000 passengers in school services every day. Routes extend to the beach suburbs of
Burnett Heads,
Bargara, and
Innes Park.
Stewart & Sons also operates bus services in the area.
Bundaberg is serviced by several
Queensland Rail
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passenger trains, including the
Tilt Train and is approximately four and a half hours north of Brisbane by rail. The closed
North Bundaberg station formerly served the
Mount Perry railway line and is now a museum.
South of Bundaberg at 24°56'43"S 152°22'5"E, there is one of the weirdest crossings of two railway lines, as there criosses a narrow gauge railway line of a sugar plantage a normal gauge railway on a drawbridg
Bundaberg is situated at the end of the
Isis Highway (State Route 3), approximately east of its junction with the
Bruce Highway. Many long-distance bus services also pass through the city.
Bundaberg Port
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is located northeast of the city, at the mouth of the
Burnett River
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Course and features
The Burnett River rises in the Burnett Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, close to Mount Gaeta and east ...
. The port is a destination for ships from Australia and overseas. It is predominantly used for shipping raw sugar and other goods related to that industry such as
Bundaberg Rum
Bundaberg Rum, colloquially known as Bundy, is a dark rum owned by Diageo. It is produced in Bundaberg East, Queensland, Australia, by the Bundaberg Distilling Company. In 2010, the Bundaberg Distilling Company was inducted into the Queensland ...
.
Health
Bundaberg is served by three hospitals. One public hospital,
Bundaberg Base Hospital on Bourbong St, and two private hospitals, Friendly Society Private Hospital & Mater Hospital.
The Friendly Society Hospital has undergone a redevelopment and forms part of the GP Super Clinic Program.
Bundaberg is also home to the Royal Flying Doctor Service, who regularly transport patients to Bundaberg from more rural and remote areas, as well as transferring critically ill patients to Brisbane for specialist care.
Military
Bundaberg houses two military bases. Bundaberg Army Barracks and Training Ship (TS) Bundaberg. Bundaberg barracks contains mostly infantrymen and army cadets. TS Bundaberg houses mostly Cadet staff and Navy Cadets.
Sister cities
The city council responsible for the
Bundaberg Region maintains Sister City arrangements with two cities.
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, Bundaberg Regional Council. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
People
Notable residents

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Mason Barbera, racing driver
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Clint Bolton, association football player, Socceroo, 2 time A-League championship winning player
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Joshua Brillante, Australian
soccer
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player
*
David Carter, tennis player
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Wayne Coles-Janess, producer and director, documentary and feature films
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Allan Davis,
Road racing cyclist, 2009 Tour Down Under Winner
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Troy Elder,
field hockey
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player
*
Steve Goodall, cyclist, 1978 Commonwealth Games Bronze Medalist, 1976 Olympian
*
Noel Hazzard,
rugby league
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footballer
*
Coen Hess,
rugby league
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footballer
*
Bert Hinkler, pioneer aviator
*
Antonio Kaufusi,
rugby league
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footballer
*
Felise Kaufusi,
rugby league
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footballer
*
Olivia Knight, Irish-Australian poet, essayist, translator and teacher
*
Mitchell Langerak, association football player, A-League championship winning player
*
Rosemary Lassig
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, Olympic swimmer
*
David Surrey Littlemore, architect
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Ben Marschke,
rugby league
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footballer
*
Jesse Marschke,
rugby league
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footballer
*
Errol McCormack, retired Chief of Air Force (1998–2001), Officer of the Order of Australia (1998)
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Rheed McCracken,
2012 Summer Paralympics
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, won a silver and bronze medal
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Sarah McLellan, dancer and entertainer, lead singer of the group
Lez Zeppelin and blogger of "The Aussie who ate the Big Apple" currently living in New York
*
Mal Meninga
Malcolm Norman Meninga (; born 8 July 1960) is an Australian professional rugby league coach and a former professional rugby league footballer. Meninga is widely regarded as one of the finest players in the game's history. He enjoyed a long ca ...
,
rugby league
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footballer and coach
*
Tom Miles, professional athlete/sprinter, winner 1927 Stawell Gift, 1928 World Champion
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Gladys Moncrieff, singer
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Clinton Moore, freestyle motocross rider
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Vance Palmer, writer
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Jayant Patel, the alleged "Doctor Death" of the Bundaberg Base Hospital
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Ian Quinn, Golden Guitar winner & singer/songwriter
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Tony Rea, rugby league footballer and coach
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Chris Sarra
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, 2004 Queenslander of the Year
*
Donald Smith, operatic tenor
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Michelle Steele, Winter Olympian at the
2006 Winter Olympics
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*
Don Tallon, Australian
cricket
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er
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Keith Thiele, World War II Pilot (awarded DSO, DFC & 2 medal bars)
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Tommy Trash,
ARIA
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and Grammy nominated Australian DJ & Producer
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Shane Tichowitsch, darts player
Representatives
Current
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Tom Smith, (
Labor),
State member for
Bundaberg
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*
Keith Pitt (
Liberal National Party of Queensland
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),
Federal member for
Hinkler
Former
*
Prime Ministers
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Andrew Fisher and
Frank Forde both represented
Federal electorates that included Bundaberg, though neither was originally from the area.
Notes
Further reading
* Hopton, Merv, and Thomas Dexter.
Bundaberg’s Early Days Articles by Thomas Dexter'' 1933.
State Library of Queensland
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External links
Bundaberg University of Queensland
* — A description of Bundaberg in 1901
Album of Bundaberg Views ca. 1894 State Library of Queensland
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1870 establishments in Australia
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