Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) the ACT equivalent of the Victorian bogan n. (1); also attrib.

1987		Canberra Times (ACT) 8 Nov. 4/4: It’s Friday night and the street tribes are gathering. There are the Westies, the Boons, the Waxheads, the Headbangers and Marist Boys, not to mention the daggy Bogans and the kids who don’t call themselves anything.
1987		Canberra Times (ACT) 8 Nov. 4/4: [G]angs or groups of juveniles who call themselves ‘boons’ [...] and who identify themselves by wearing the heavy-metal style T-shirts.
1991		Woroni (Canberra) 21 Oct. 36/1: It is the Westie culture, the boon culture at its finest. It was AC/DC in concert.
1996		L. Javin Rock n Roll Babes from Outer Space 82: [T]hey found themselves in the heart of the Cross, a magnet for sleazebags and booners of every description.
2001		Google Groups: alt.tv.neighbours 20 Nov. 🌐 A bogan - defined as a young, unsophisticated person - is known in Queensland as a bevan, in Tasmania as a chigga and in the ACT as a booner.
2004		J. Lambert Macquarie Dict. Sl. 25/1: booner, the Canberra term for a westie, bevan or bogan. A yobbo from the boondocks. Also called a boonie.
2009		Punch (Melbourne) 4 Aug. 🌐 ‘Canberra’s sprawling suburbs are so huge that they are split into several regions of suburbs, Woden, Belconnen (Belco) and Tuggeranong (Tuggers) and therefore, like any suburban mass, become booner/bogan territory,’ he writes.