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'''Baddaginnie''' is a small town in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]]. It is located on the [[Albury-Wodonga V/Line rail service|Albury-Wodonga railway line]], in the [[Rural City of Benalla]], 12 kilometres south-west of [[Benalla, Victoria|Benalla]] itself on the old [[Hume Highway]]. It is situated in mainly flat unforested country, one kilometre west of [[Baddaginnie Creek]]. At the 2006 [[Census in Australia|census]], Baddaginnie and the surrounding area had a population of 460.<ref name="ABS">{{Census 2006 AUS
'''Baddaginnie''' ({{lang-si|බඩගිනී}} is a small town in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]]. It is located on the [[Albury-Wodonga V/Line rail service|Albury-Wodonga railway line]], in the [[Rural City of Benalla]], 12 kilometres south-west of [[Benalla, Victoria|Benalla]] itself on the old [[Hume Highway]]. It is situated in mainly flat unforested country, one kilometre west of [[Baddaginnie Creek]]. At the 2006 [[Census in Australia|census]], Baddaginnie and the surrounding area had a population of 460.<ref name="ABS">{{Census 2006 AUS
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Baddaginnie
Victoria
Shop, no longer operating; a wall with post office boxes is in the foreground with the post box and public phone
Population460[1]
Postcode(s)3670
Location
LGA(s)Rural City of Benalla
State electorate(s)Benalla
Federal division(s)Indi

Baddaginnie (Template:Lang-si is a small town in Victoria, Australia. It is located on the Albury-Wodonga railway line, in the Rural City of Benalla, 12 kilometres south-west of Benalla itself on the old Hume Highway. It is situated in mainly flat unforested country, one kilometre west of Baddaginnie Creek. At the 2006 census, Baddaginnie and the surrounding area had a population of 460.[1]

The town was surveyed in 1857, named after the nearby Baddaginnie Creek, but settlement was slow, a Post Office finally opening on 16 September 1879.[2]

George "Joey" Palmer, the 1880s Australian test cricketer, died there on 22 August 1910.

Although sometimes mistaken for an Aboriginal word, the name means "hungry" in the Sinhala language (bada is 'stomach' and ginnie is 'fire'), as the surveyor had spent some time in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the survey team may have been without food when it arrived there.

References

  1. ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Baddaginnie (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2007-07-21.
  2. ^ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, retrieved 2008-04-11