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This marks Confluence of Culgoa, Barwon and Darling Rivers Australia's longest single river is the River Murray at 2508 kilometres. However, if the longest tributaries of the Darling River, the Culgoa, Balonne and Condamine, are taken into account its total length increases to 2740 kilometres, making it Australia's longest waterway. Name State Length (km) Condamine/Balonne/Culgoa Rivers Queensland/New South Wales 1195 Darling River (between the Culgoa River and River Murray)New South Wales 1545 River Murray (downstream from the Darling River junction)New South Wales/Victoria/South Australia 828 Total length of system Queensland/New South Wales/Victoria/South Australia3672 https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/landforms/longest-rivers Burdekin River (Qld) has the highest discharge of an Australian river - ave 380m3/s (13,000 cu ft/s) - max 40,000m3/s (1,400,000 cu ft/s) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdekin_River#:~:text=The%20Burdekin%20River%20is%20Australia's,by%20(peak)%20discharge%20volume. The (flooded) Fitzroy River (WA) holds the discharge record for an Australian River: Max ~60,000m3/s which would put it well above the recognised second largest discharge river: GangesBrahmaputraMeghna Ave 43,950m3/s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_discharge Condamine/Balonne/Culgoa/Darling/Murray River - 3672kms - 16th longest river systems in the world - 18th Largest Drainage Basin in the World - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_river_systems_by_lengt