Bandiana
Town in Victoria, Australia
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Bandiana is a suburb of the City of Wodonga in the northeast of Victoria, Australia.
Bandiana | |
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  Bandiana | |
| Coordinates: 36°09′S 146°55′E | |
| Country | Australia |
| State | Victoria |
| Region | Northeast Victoria |
| LGA | |
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| Population | |
| • Total | 615 (2016 census)[1] |
| Postcode | 3694 |
History
Bandiana takes its name from the early name for the area, probably from a First Nations toponym.
The hill now known as Bears Hill appears as Bandiana Range in early maps[2] and the Street family selected the property Bandiana Park in the late 1800s.[3]
The Australian Defence Force has had a logistics and maintenance base in the area since 1942 and there was once a rail line and station servicing the area. Bandiana Military Post Office opened on 28 September 1942 and the region is still a major Australian Army logistics facility.[4][5]
Population
In the 2016 Census, there were 615 people in Bandiana. 86.4% of people were born in Australia and 89.6% of people only spoke English at home. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 22.5%. Of the employed people in Bandiana, 56.8% worked in Defence.[1]
Sport & Recreation
There was once an active 18 hole golf course at the Bandiana Army Golf Club on Donegan Road, but as of 2024, it is now closed.
- Bandiana Football Association
- 1945 to
- Bandiana Football Club
The Bandiana Football Club was established in 1940 and played in several different football leagues during it time between 1940 and 1973.
- Football Timeline
- 1940
- 1947–1951: Chiltern & District Football Association
- 1952: Tallangatta & District Football League
- 1953–1956: Chiltern & District Football Association[6]
- 1957–?
- 1958–1963: Tallangatta & District Football League
- 1964–?
- 1965–1972: Tallangatta & District Football League
- 1973: Club ceased playing official competition football.
- Base Workshops Football Club (Bandiana Army)
Played in the Yackandandah & District Football League in 1951.[7] They then joined the Tallangatta & District Football League in 1952.
- Royal Australian Electrical & Mechanical Engineers FC
The RAEME FC were a football club solely made up of service men from the Military Area of Bandiana, that played in the Tallangatta & District Football League in 1953 and 1954. RAEME FC finished 10th (last) in 1953[8] and in 1954, the RAEME FC unfortunately did not finish off the season, after withdrawing from the competition after round nine, after losing all nine games.[9][10]
RAEME FC player Percy Appleyard won the Tallangatta & District Football League best and fairest award, the J A Paton Trophy in 1953.[11]
