Bingara (Aboriginal for 'creek'[4]) is a small town on the Gwydir River in Murchison County in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia.

[6] Bingara is located very close to Myall Creek, the site of the massacre of 27 to 30 Indigenous Australians.

[7] In 1827, British explorer Allan Cunningham crossed the Gwydir River near Bingara.

British colonisation at Bingara began in 1836 with the arrival of the pastoralist squatter Thomas Simpson Hall.

A detachment of New South Wales Mounted Police under Sergeant John Temple were dispatched to the area and, accompanied by Hall's armed stockmen, exacted a "terrible retribution upon the blacks".

Bingara has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa, Trewartha: Cfak/Cfal), with hot summers and cool winters.