Binghi

The Adventures of Billy Binghi (title of a comic feature)

Wood-Jones believed that these early migrants got here by sea, in canoes, and that each one brought with him his missus and the kids. Wood-Jones also held to the opinion that Binghi brought with him the dingo—a domesticated Asiatic wolf—together with the dingo's missus. Botanists also lean to the belief that Binghi brought with him (for food purposes) the seeds of certain plants which are not considered to be indigenes of this country; a notable instance being Prickly Acacia (A. Farnesiana), bunkaman, of the blackfellows.

In November 1909 the Bulletin ridiculed the Australian Church Congress for uttering lamentations about the obvious passing away of "our black brother Binghi". What maddened the Bulletin was the tears from the advocates of the universal embrace. The bishops, the clergy, and all the other creeps had never been brave enough to say they wanted more Binghis in the world. To be born Binghi meant being black and often naked, to be a person who had an incurable tendency to lead a squalid life in a gunyah. Binghis, said the Bulletin, added nothing to the world's stock of knowledge.