Borung Highway is a 138 kilometre rural highway in western Victoria, running in a west–east direction from Dimboola in the west to Charlton in the east. The possibilities are that the Borung Highway was named for this tribe, or as is written in the history of the town of Borung the town "takes its name from an Aboriginal word meaning the broad leafed mallee scrub".
History
The passing of the Country Roads Act 1912 through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the establishment of the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) and their ability to declare Main Roads, taking responsibility for the management, construction and care of the state's major roads from local municipalities. Donald(-Charlton) Road from Donald to Charlton was declared a Main Road on 28 May 1915. provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the state government through the Country Roads Board. Borung Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1947/48 financial year, along the former Dimboola-Warracknabeal Road. granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Borung Highway (Arterial #6690) between Western Highway in Dimboola and Calder Highway at Charlton.
Borung-Charlton Road, running east from Charlton to Borung, is often locally referred to as Borung Highway. Although it appears Borung Highway was intended to at least end in Borung, the highway remains a shared single lane roadway without future plans for enhancement. The highway would have then had the township of Borung at one end and the former Shire of Borung (renamed Shire of Warracknabeal in 1938) at the other.
The Shire (which included Warracknabeal) was originally named the Shire of Borung in 1891 when it was split off from the Shire of St. Arnaud. The name was changed due to confusion in mail deliveries with the township of Borung, and during Victorian Council amalgamations in 1995 it was changed again to the Shire of Yarriambiack.