Download coordinates as: Dirranbandi is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Balonne, Queensland, Australia.

Gamilaraay (also known as Gamilaroi, Kamilaroi, Comilroy) is an Aboriginal 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.

He is believed to have named the town using an Aboriginal word, meaning either broken forest country or chorus of frogs at night.

[2][8] The name may be derived from a Yuwaaliyaay dialect placename, Dhurrunbandaay, relating to dhurrun.gal ("hairy caterpillars") and baanda-y ("move in single file").

One hundred housing allotments were first set aside, followed by land for a police station, a state school, and post office.

[19] In September 1934 Mr. A. Clayton was contracted to build an Anglican church in Dirranbandi to the design of Brisbane architect, S. W. Prior.

Border crossing points were either closed or had a Queensland Police checkpoint to allow entry to only those people with an appropriate permit.

[36] Balonne Shire Council operates a library on the Castlereagh Highway inside the Rural Transaction Centre.

[44] Slim Dusty sang about being the Dirranbandi Dandy in the song "Cunnamulla Fella", which he co-wrote with Stan Coster.

[45] Robert G. Barrett's popular "You Wouldn't be Dead for Quids" book series featured Les Norton as the lead character, who was born and bred in Dirranbandi.

Tom Dancey (1888–1957), a local stockman and Indigenous Australian, won Australia's most famous footrace, the Stawell Gift in 1910.

He is best known for playing Alf Stewart on soap opera Home and Away, and credits one of his character's catchphrases "Stone the flamin' crows!"