Outback Towns

Wodonga

Wodonga is one of the fastest growing regional areas in Australia. Tree-lined streets, parks, walking tracks, sport, restaurants, theatre, schools & universities.. we've got the lot!

About Wodonga

Wodonga – Twin City on a Border

You can’t talk about Wodonga without including its twin city, Albury. The border cities of Albury-Wodonga straddle the Murray River, the border between New South Wales and Victoria, 3 hours from Melbourne and 6 hours from Sydney.

Albury-Wodonga is one of the largest inland population centres in Australia with over 90,000 people living in the area. But border anomalies plague the cities, divided geographically only by the river, but politically by two separate governments 900kms apart!

Wodonga Attractions

The region surrounding Albury Wodonga offers everything from sports to gardens, gourmet getaways to bush tucker, snow to vineyards, and the past to the present, within easy reach of the snowfields, high country, waterways and wineries.

History

Explorers Hume and Hovell and Captain Charles Sturt named the Hume and Murray Rivers in the 1820’s.

The rail line from Sydney reached Albury in 1881, spelling the end of the paddle-steamer. Due to differences in the gauge of the railway lines between the two states, Albury and Wodonga became changing stations for passengers and freight.

Military and Migrants

The military presence that was established in Wodonga with a camp at Bonegilla in 1940 has since grown to include the Australian Army Training Centre at Latchford Barracks (Bonegilla), units at Bandianna, and full Army support services.

Bonegilla also saw the establishment of a Migrant Camp in 1947 as part of the Governments Post War Migration Scheme. The Bonegilla Migrant Reception Center temporarily housed over 320,000 people from 31 different ethnic backgrounds during it's 24 years of operation.

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