Gunnedah (pop. 8,338) is a town on the Namoi River in New South Wales, Australia. Gunnedah is in a rich agricultural region. Farms in the area grow such crops as wheat, sorghum, barley, and soybeans. They produce such livestock as cattle, sheep, and pigs. Coal is also mined in the area. The area is home to many koalas.
European settlers arrived in the area around 1830. Gunnedah was named after the local Gunn-e-darr people, an Aboriginal people of the Kamilaroi language group. The name is thought to mean place of white stones. Gunnedah became a municipality in 1885. The family of the Australian poet Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968) kept a farm near Gunnedah, and the beauty of the local countryside is thought to have influenced her poetry.
