Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus./N.Z.) an aboriginal or Native Australian.

1893		Maitland Mercury 30 Nov. 5/5: A Binghi man arrived yesterday in a canoe from Moa.
1895		Barrier Miner (Broken Hills, NSW) 2 Dec. 4/1: Mr Anderson reports that three Binghis, forming a portion of the coloured crew, attempted to murder him.
1908		H. Lawson ‘Their Mate’s Honour’ in Roderick (1972) 762: They wouldn’t have the advantage of the active co-operation of the devils, Binghi and Biljim.
1910		Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Aug. 15/2: Wherever Jerry Jerome, the Queensland aboriginal boxer, goes, he takes with him an ancient Binghi. [...] He knows nothing of boxing; but Jerome will not fight unless the patriarch is there to give him some moral support.
1918		R.H. Knyvett ‘Over There’ with the Australians 19: The ‘Binghis’ (natives of New Guinea), when they saw him, blamed him for a recent tidal wave.
1920		Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Feb. 20/3: Binghi told me this legend as we sat in the bêche-de-mer camp.
1934		T. Wood Cobbers 34: The home for a floating population of Japanese [...] Koepangers, binghis, half-castes, and whites.
1936		(con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 76: Before he was eight Harry could swim like a binghi.
1944		L. Glassop We Were the Rats 5: [I] sneaks in just in time to see Jerry knock Binghi as cold as a Polar bear’s backside.
1955		N. Pulliam I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 229/1: The abo is sometimes called a blackfellow or binghi, burry or blackman, etc.