Mungallala

Mungallala is a town and a locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia.

Mungallala is a town and a locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Mungallala had a population of 136 people.

The name Mungallala derives from a pastoral run and comes from the Kunggari language with from mungar / kungarmeaning bird and yaya / lala meaning shout, implying the sound made by the claws of running emus. The name Dulbydilla derives from the Aboriginal words, dulby meaning black and dilla meaning waterhole, referring to the discolouration of the water caused by eucalypt leaves.The town was on the Cobb & Co stage coach route from Roma to Charleville; The coach traveled the 283 kilometres (176 mi) twice weekly, and they staged at Womalilla,Downs, Burenda Downs and Dulbydilla. Mungallala may also have been a "changing station".The coach drivers included Austin Brumfield, J. Coyle, Tom Merritt, Jim Burstall, Bob Martin and Luke O'Malley. The route was mail service number 15 (Mitchell-Roma) and 16 (Mitchell -Charleville), and ran bi-weekly to 1881, thrice-weekly. In August 1886, the Number 16 route was shortened to Dulbydilla. From March 1887, the coach began at Morven. On 29 February 1888 the Western railway line reached Charleville, seeing the end of the Cobb & Co mail runs through Mungallala.

Dulbydilla Post Office operated from 1886 to 1887, after which a receiving office operated from 1887 to 1924. A telephone office operate from 1953 to 1956.Mungallala Post Office opened by May 1911 (a receiving office had been open from 1887).Mungallala Provisional School opened on 5 September 1904. It became Mungallala State School on 1 January 1909.St John's Anglican church was dedicated on 18 September 1914 by the Venerable Arthur Rivers. Its closure on 5 April 2006 was approved by Archdeacon of The West, G.F. Harch.

In 2016 the Australian Taxation Office listed Mungallala as having the lowest mean taxable income by postcode, making it the poorest town in Australia, which led the ABC to do a documentary on the town for their online "storyhunters" program.