Murray Bridge (formerly Mobilong and Edwards Crossing; Ngarrindjeri: Pomberuk) is a city in the Australian state of South Australia, located 78 kilometres (48 mi) east-southeast of the state's capital city, Adelaide, and 77 kilometres (48 mi) north of the town of Meningie.

The city is situated on the Princes Highway, the main road transport link between Adelaide and Melbourne.

The city services a farming area including dairy, pigs, chickens, cereal crops and vegetables.

At that time, audiences were dwindling owing to only silent films being able to be shown, but there were plans to upgrade to enable screening of "talkies".

The bounded locality of Murray Bridge remained the majority population centre and seat of the city council.

[11] Murray Bridge is located 76 km south-east of Adelaide and is the population centre of the Murraylands region.

Murray Bridge Green opened in 1976 as a Woolworths supermarket and a small number of additional stores.

Discount supermarket Aldi opened further west from the Murray Bridge CBD, on the corner of Adelaide Road and Thomas Street in late 2018.

[24] The Murray Bridge Town Hall, built in 1911 and redeveloped in 2010, is a theatre seating up to 300 people located in the city centre.

[26] Murray Bridge hosts a number of popular community events such as the Murray Bridge Fringe Festival, Christmas Pageant and Fireworks Spectacular, Splash Festival, and numerous street stalls and farmers markets.

[27] The city is home to the Round House and Captain's Cottage Museum, both are open for tours and interactive experiences with the history of the area.

Opened in 2011, after moving from its former location on South Terrace, the library overlooks the Murray River and boasts a large selection of books, self-service kiosks, computers, kitchen and gallery areas.

Murray Bridge is home to "The Bunyip", a mechanical representation of the legendary water monster, located on Sturt Reserve.

Opening in stages, the Linear Park includes public toilets, shelter and a BBQ area.

[31] In 1924 the Murray Bridge rowing team was chosen to represent Australia at the Paris Olympics.

[32] In February 2024 it was announced that the crew would be posthumously inducted into the South Australian Sport Hall of Fame.

The league consists of the Murray Bridge-based clubs of Ramblers and Imperials and the district teams of Mypolonga, Mannum, Tailem Bend, Jervois and Meningie.

In 2005 the city's golf course, Murray Bridge Golf Club, held the State's premier regional junior team event, the Brett Ogle Cup (named after the Australian Professional golfer Brett Ogle).

The team had not previously experienced such success; junior golf in the region has since obtained a higher profile.

Located on the eastern side of the River, the speedway is a 360 metres (390 yd) long dirt track racing venue that caters to both motorcycle speedway and car racing, hosting numerous Australian and South Australian championships during its existence.

On 12 November 2011 the speedway hosted its first ever World Championship event when it will host the FIM 2011 World Sidecar speedway Championship with Murray Bridge's own Jesse Headland winning the title as passenger to NSW based rider Darrin Treloar.

Murray Bridge is part of the state Electoral district of Hammond, which has been held since 2006 by Liberal MP Adrian Pederick.

In federal politics, the city is part of the division of Barker, and has been represented by Liberal MP Tony Pasin since 2013.

Murray Bridge has a small TAFE SA campus, which offers a limited selection of tertiary courses.

[36] Dozens of other regional newspapers, publications and catalogues are also printed at the former Rural Press facility on Adelaide Road.

In 2020, Australian Community Media (ACM) announced that the Murray Valley Standard will cease being printed along with a number of other regional newspapers.

[41][42] Murray Bridge News is an online platform that regularly publishes articles from the city's only dedicated full-time journalist.

Over recent years there have been discussions about re-instating commuter rail services between Adelaide and Murray Bridge, however there has been little to no progress made.