{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2012}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = town | name = Boggabilla | state = nsw | image = Boggabilla.JPG | caption = The Wobbly Boot Hotel at Boggabilla | lga = Moree Plains Shire | postcode = 2409 | est = | pop = 529 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}} | pop_footnotes= <ref name=Census/> | coordinates = {{coord|28|36|0|S|150|21|0|E|display=inline,title}} | pushpin_label_position = | elevation= | maxtemp = | mintemp = | rainfall = | stategov = Northern Tablelands | fedgov = Parkes | dist1 = 703 | dir1 = NW | location1= Sydney | dist2 = 357 | dir2 = SW | location2= Brisbane | dist3 = 115 | dir3 = NE | location3= Moree | dist4 = 9 | dir4 = SE | location4= Goondiwindi }} '''Boggabilla''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ɒ|ɡ|ə|b|ɪ|l|ə}} is a small town in the far north of inland New South Wales, Australia in Moree Plains Shire. At the {{CensusAU|2021}}, the town had a population of 529, of which 43.5% identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent.<ref name=Census>{{Census 2021 AUS|id=UCL121008|name=Boggabilla (L) (Urban Centre/Locality)|access-date=31 May 2023|quick=on}}</ref>
The name Boggabilla comes from Gamilaraay ''bagaaybila'', literally "full of creeks".<ref>{{NSW GNR|id=KWjLwpsE|title=Boggabilla|access-date=20 June 2009}}</ref> The same "creek" element is found in the name of Boggabri.
== Geography == Boggabilla is located on the southern bank of the Macintyre River, north of Moree. The Newell Highway passes through Boggabilla and is met by the Bruxner Way at a junction in the centre of town. Surrounding localities include Toomelah Station {{convert|15|km|abbr=on}} to the east, while the larger town of Goondiwindi is {{convert|9|km|abbr=on}} northwest, across the border in Queensland.
==History== The Boggabilla region is situated roughly on the border of two large language groups of Aboriginal Australians, the Bigambul and the northern clans of the Gamilaraay. British colonisation had a devastating effect on these people, with many being killed in frontier conflict and the Bigambul language now being extinct.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tindale |first1=Norman |title=Aboriginal tribes of Australia: their terrain, environmental controls, distribution, limits and proper names |date=1974 |publisher=ANU Press |location=Canberra}}</ref><ref name="collins">{{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=Patrick |title=Goodbye Bussamarai, The Mandandanji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842-1852 |date=2002 |publisher=UQP |location=St Lucia |isbn=0702232939}}</ref>
The first British to enter the region were squatter pastoralists who started to take land in the early 1840s. Around 1843, George Yeomans and Otto Baldwin formed the Boggabilla pastoral station. They and their stockmen skirmished with the local Aboriginal men over occupation of the land and it wasn't until the arrival of the government funded Native Police force under Commandant Frederick Walker in 1849 that armed Aboriginal resistance around Boggabilla was put down.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228249395 |title=Outrages by the Blacks. |newspaper=Parramatta Chronicle And Cumberland General Advertiser |volume=I |issue=47 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=16 November 1844 |accessdate=15 September 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref name="collins" />
The township of Boggabilla was formed and allotments were first offered for sale in 1863.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18697016 |title=Government Gazette. |newspaper=The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser |volume=XX |issue=2378 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=15 August 1863 |accessdate=15 September 2023 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
==Demographics== According to the 2021 census of Population, there were 529 in Boggabilla. * Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 43.5% of the population. * About 63.5% of people were born in Australia and 65.4% of people only spoke English at home. * 56.2% identified as Christian and 28.5% identified as having no religious affiliation.<ref name=Census/>
== Transport == Boggabilla used to have a railway service, but this has been cut back to North Star, New South Wales, where the last silo is located. Also, an airport and shuttle services are available to Sydney from Moree located 110 km south of Boggabilla. Daily bus services run both north and south.
== Health == The nurses at Boggabilla Health Centre provide services such as preschool screening and immunisation. <!-- There have been concerns about the health consequences of high levels of violence. --><ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/heartbroken-nurse-quits-over-child-abuse/2008/06/22/1214073053723.html Heartbroken nurse quits over child abuse] ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 23 June 2008.</ref>
== Education == Boggabilla Central School has preparatory, primary, and secondary grades) and a TAFE (a campus of TAFE NSW).
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==External links== {{commons category|Boggabilla, New South Wales}} *[http://www.nnsw.com.au/boggabilla/gallery.html Boggabilla Photo Gallery] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110119165422/http://www.moreechampion.com.au/news/local/news/general/boggabilla-floods/2047621.aspx Boggabilla 2011 Floods]
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Category:Towns in New South Wales Category:Moree Plains Shire Category:Newell Highway