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Articles maintained by this WikiProject are grouped in Category:WikiProject Australian politics articles by using the politics=yes parameter with the {{WP Australia}} template.

Usage: {{WP Australia|politics=yes}}

Articles for deletion

• 13 Apr 2024 – Amelia Hamer (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by AusLondonder (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 07 Apr 2024 – Candidates of the next Australian federal election (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TarnishedPath (t · c); see discussion (11 participants)
• 06 Apr 2024 – Mannkal Economic Education Foundation (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TarnishedPath (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
• 04 Apr 2024 – Teresa Harding (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Toadspike (t · c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 15 Apr 2024 – Arthur Morgan (Australian politician, born 1856) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Greenish Pickle! (t · c): Fails GNG

Files for discussion

• 12 Apr 2024 – File:Jbchandler.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on John Beals Chandler) was FfDed by Felix QW (t · c); see discussion

Featured list candidates

• 22 Feb 2024 – List of premiers of Victoria (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by GMH Melbourne (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 07 Apr 2024 – Sophie Scamps (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by GraziePrego (t · c); start discussion
• 22 Feb 2024 – Premier of Victoria (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by GMH Melbourne (t · c); start discussion
• 30 Jan 2024 – Zali Steggall (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by GraziePrego (t · c); start discussion
• 07 Jan 2024 – John Tonkin (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Steelkamp (t · c); start discussion

Requests for comments

• 29 Mar 2024 – Libertarian Party (Australia) (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Helper201 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 01 Apr 2024 – 1928 Australian referendum (State debts) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to 1928 Australian referendum by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Apr 2024 – 1906 Australian referendum (Senate elections) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to 1906 Australian referendum by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Apr 2024 – 1973 Australian referendum (Incomes) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to 1973 Australian referendum on incomes by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Apr 2024 – 1973 Australian referendum (Prices) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to 1973 Australian referendum on prices by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Mar 2024 – Democratic Labour Party (Australia, 1980) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Democratic Labour Party (Australia) by Totallynotarandomalt69 (t · c) was not moved to Democratic Labour Party (Australia, 1978) (talk · edit · hist) by SafariScribe (t · c) on 08 Apr 2024; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 05 Mar 2024 – Minister for Ports and Waterways (New South Wales) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Minister for Transport (New South Wales) by DilatoryRevolution (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 14 Nov 2022 – It's Time (Australian campaign) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Gusfriend (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 06 Apr 2024 – Draft:Bruce Lehrmann (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TarnishedPath (t · c)

Requests for Grade/rate

• 09 Nov 2020 ASEAN–Australia Development Cooperation Program 【https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASEAN%E2%80%93Australia_Development_Cooperation_Program】
• 09 Dec 2020 1973 Australian Referendum (Prices) This is a sub-class article, but I have since made additions to the article. It would be much appreciated if the quality of this article could be reassessed. Thanks. --Zimo101 (talk) 05:10, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

• Electorates
• Government departments
• Legislative buildings
• Parliaments
• Parties

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

• List of Australian federal by-elections
• Second Gillard Ministry needs updating in light of reshuffle (12 Dec 2011).
• Work is needed on Frank Knopfelmacher. See talk page.

Upcoming elections and referendums:

• Draft:2023 Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands local elections
• 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum

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This user is a member of WikiProject Australian politics.

• Ajdlinux
• APNOneTwo - Former Political science student at UniMelb. I am particularly interested in a wide range of topics such as updating cabinet members, adding infoboxes for consistency, electorates, bios of Asian-Australian elected officials.
• User:Apriljennifer - Political science student at Monash.
• Bduke Have already added some stuff for NT pollies. I lived in NT for 18 years, but am now in Melbourne.
• BenM
• User:Bidgee - Getting photographs when possible, add infoboxes, sourcing etc.
• Bjenks - Non-party-interested but prev. professional involvement with major parties plus Nats, Dems and alternatives since 1975.
• User:BookFate
• Caleb Bond
• User:CamV8
• Canley – electoral maps, scripted output of election result tables, historical stuff bios and results when I can find the time to research
• Catiline52
• Casliber
• Charbono
• CJ
• Coekon (talk) 01:48, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
• ColonialGrid
• Dawesi - Interest in smaller political parties and lobby groups and their particular strategies and how they evolve/merge into other parties.
• Dauwenkust
• Dc5806restart - Working to clarify information, specifically missing information (results of historical senate elections), along with keeping things up to date.
• DivermanAU (was Diverman until they changed my ID.) — Historical articles and info.
• Donama - general stuff, mainly keeping non-controversial political detail up-to-date
• Eley - Help out here and there
• Elyswyth
• Euryalus
• Frickeg - electorates, politicians, etc.
• GA Melbourne - Live in Vic, contribute mainly to Vic State and Cth articles
• GarrieIrons - electorates, members, western Sydney NSW. Sorry but I'm making a few stubs but will come back around to them when I work a few more issues out...
• Giles Martin - long-term ALP activist in the Newcastle area, though now living outside Australia, interested in tidying up and correcting articles within my area of knowledge
• Godianus the Finder
• GoForMoe
• Grahame C
• Granleese
• GraziePrego
• Guy0307 (talk) - Especially anything election-related.
• Hack - WA politics
• Hamiltonstone - working on some major political institution pages, plus fed MP bios
• HiLo48 - Federal and Victorian stuff in particular. Other random stuff if it attracts my attention.
• Hshook
• J2m5
• John Vandenberg - Melbourne. Working on ABS, OCS and other federal advisory agencies.
• JML1148 - Federal and Victorian politics, mostly.
• John Quiggin I'll do bits and pieces as I get time. I've been a reasonably close follower of Oz politics for the past thirty years, so I could probably add details to quite a few entries if I'm pointed in the right direction
• Kapitan110295
• Kingo - Happy to help out when I'm around
• User:Kingteesdale - the Nationals, minor parties and their particular strategies with a non-partisan view - happy to help where I can
• K-Mac
• Kirsdarke01 - State electoral districts and results, primarily for the Eastern states.
• LeoC12 - interested in both football and Australian politics, will focus on details on both major and minor parties when I'm not overly busy.
• Leon I've been trying to blitz Kevin Rudd's article and keep it accurate as new policy, etc. is released. From Melbourne.
• Lisa Thurston (wd be glad to help out here)
• Locochoko love me some general political and organisational geekery.
• Loytra – I mostly make small changes to infoboxes and such
• LW77
• Marcnut1996 - NSW and federal politics mainly, as well as state party branches of the major parties.
• Moondragon21
• Nasica - I know a bit about elections and parliament, so I'll try to help out there.
• Nford24
• User:Oronsay - bios of women politicians, general updating
• Porthysek^SA Interested in the House of Senate, Ministers and Shadow Ministers
• Nick-D
• Onetwothreeip
• Orderinchaos - Mainly historical politics at state level around Australia, and especially Western Australia.
• PabloZ
• Penzance1 - Victorian, NSW and Queensland politics with a focus on the Coalition.
• Peta
• Peter Campbell I am keen to add additional information and articles. I live in Melbourne.
• Philip Terry Graham – hailing from Sydney; keen on contributing to general #auspol articles, such as elections. Contributing brand new graphics for Australian electorates – 11:44, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
• Романов - Mostly Eastern States politics and Federal members.
• porturology - concentrating on Federal Health Ministers
• Powertothepeople - Fairly new to editing wikipedia. I like to tidy up less important living politicians whose profiles have a bit of puffery and/or were based on their own materials.
• Presidentman
• Rangasyd - Sydney - focus on western Sydney & western NSW State & Federal seats; and by-elections in NSW. I have completed, or are in the process of completing the historical ministries in NSW.
• Rebecca
• Recurring dreams - NSW and Australian politics in general
• Roisterer - I already thought I had my name here but I generally concentrate on dead politicians.
• Rotovia
• Runger 999
• Sarah
• Scott Davis
• Stephen Bain (talk)
• Stormie
• Supdup
• superegz
• Supun47 From NSW, interested in Australian + American politics but mainly psephology. Have also developed own electoral system
• Surturz
• Taymaishu - Mainly working on MLC's in New South Wales, will be developing and cleaning/structuring general NSW MPs and MLCs in standard formatting.
• tbyrn21 - Qlder, mostly focusing on collating upcoming candidates for elections.
• TarnishedPath
• Thatguykalem (talk) - Editing bits of everything. I'll be all over the place ^_^
• The Little Platoon (talk) - I would really like to see the stories of our political leaders and candidates set out more clearly. Democracy doesn't really work unless you know who you're voting for and what they believe.
• TheScrubby - Updated federal electoral division pages; currently doing up federal ministry pages; uploading public domain photos of historic Australian politicians; etc.
• TheTimMan - From WA, interested in federal and WA state politics
• Timeshift - found working most on Australian federal and South Australian state elections, by-elections, leaders and politicians - historical and modern.
• Timrollpickering
• Twotwofourtysix
• Unus Multorum Political scientist, working in the Netherlands but writes a lot about Australian political history
• Warnester - can help with NSW Politicians, and Commonwealth Government departments
• User:Wikipeterproject - Adding bits and pieces when I have time. Contributed articles on Francis Matthew John Baker & Francis Patrick Baker - only father to follow son into political office in Australia.
• WikiTownsvillian
• YellowMonkey -electorate issues
• Minigoody101
• LeoC12
• SwiftyPeep
• Champion (talk · contribs)
• Politically Minded Stoner
• Laborrules8
• Rileyb
• ThirdEchelon (talk · contribs) - 2017 candidate for Queensland MLA; 2019 candidate for MP.
• Ultraodan (talk · contribs)
• Vserum13 (talk · contribs) - Live in NSW, interested in Federal and State politics. Have worked in Fed and State Parliament and am familiar with useful resources.
• AverageFraud‬‬

• Adam Carr's Election Archive
• Archived websites of Australian electoral campaigns
• DMOZ Open Directory category: Australian Politics

The parents of this WikiProject are

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia

See Category:Australia politics and government templates

• The standard party colour templates are {{Australian politics/party colours}} for just the colour and {{Australian party style}} for background colour style statement (usage: {{Australian party style|Labour}}, {{Australian party style|Liberal}} etc)
• For templates which use the meta/color system (e.g., {{party colour}} and {{Infobox election}}), see the other templates listed in Category:Australia political party colour templates
• {{Australian Politics Suburb}} for use in suburb articles
• {{Election box candidate AU party}} for use with {{Election box}}
• {{Infobox Australian Electorate}}
• {{Infobox Election Result}}
• {{Infobox Election Campaign}}
• {{Cite Au Parliament}} - standard citation for APH biographies
• {{Cite Au Senate}} - standard citation for the Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate
• {{Cite NSW Parliament}} - standard citation for NSW parliamentary biographies
• {{Cite SA Parliament}} - standard citation for South Australian parliamentary biographies
• {{Cite Tas Parliament}} - standard citation for Tasmanian parliamentary biographies
• {{Cite re-member}} - standard citation for Victorian parliamentary biographies

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  • Category:Australian parliaments
  • Category:Political controversies in Australia
  • Category:Political parties in Australia
  • Category:Australian politicians
  • Category:Referendums in Australia
  • Category:Republicanism in Australia
  • Category:Australian royal commissions
  • Category:Politics of Tasmania
  • Category:Viceroys in Australia

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