Bungunya

Bungunya is a rural town and locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.

Bungunya is a rural town and locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia. The locality is on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. In the 2016 census, Bungunya had a population of 75 people.

The name Bungunya is allegedly an Aboriginal word, meaning a high or safe living place. The language and dialect is unknown but it may be an imported name from Victoria.Gamilaraay (Gamilaroi, Kamilaroi, Comilroy) is a language from South-West Queensland and North-West New South Wales. The Gamilaraay language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Balonne Shire Council, including the towns of Dirranbandi, Thallon, Talwood and Bungunya as well as the border towns of Mungindi and Boomi extending to Moree, Tamworth and Coonabarabran in NSW.Bungunya Provisional School opened on a half-time basis in 1916, sharing the teacher with Glengower Provisional School. It became a full-time school in 1918 and a state school soon after.Bungunya was once a busy railway centre from which thousands of bales of wool were transported from local sheep stations following the shearing season.In the 2011 census, Bungunya had a population of 189 people.In the 2016 census, Bungunya had a population of 75 people.