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The WikiProject on Australian politics is a project to better organise information in articles related to the politics and government of Australia at federal, state and local levels of government.
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))
Statistics[edit]
| Australian politics articles by quality and importance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA
|
3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 16 | ||
| FL
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3 | 3 | |||||
 GA
|
2 | 10 | 11 | 18 | 41 | ||
| B | 21 | 49 | 67 | 173 | 2 | 312 | |
| C | 26 | 109 | 146 | 1,117 | 15 | 1,413 | |
| Start | 16 | 212 | 497 | 5,101 | 57 | 5,883 | |
| Stub | 17 | 131 | 6,362 | 2 | 59 | 6,571 | |
| List | 2 | 13 | 215 | 3,527 | 7 | 3,764 | |
| Category | 27 | 1,426 | 1,453 | ||||
| Disambig | 3 | 35 | 38 | ||||
| File | 38 | 38 | |||||
| Project | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Redirect | 2 | 12 | 322 | 87 | 423 | ||
| Template | 4 | 5 | 439 | 448 | |||
| Other | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||||
| Assessed | 73 | 418 | 1,081 | 16,668 | 2,034 | 140 | 20,414 |
| Unassessed | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| Total | 73 | 418 | 1,081 | 16,672 | 2,035 | 140 | 20,419 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 75,511 | Ω = 5.30 | |||||
Article alerts[edit]
Did you know
- 15 Apr 2024 – George Henry Jenkins (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by ITBF (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 04 Apr 2024 – Teresa Harding (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Toadspike (t · c) was closed as redirect by Doczilla (t · c) on 26 Apr 2024; see discussion (11 participants; relisted)
Categories for discussion
- 17 Apr 2024 – Category:Democratic Labor Party (historical) members of the Parliament of Victoria (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Utopes (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Apr 2024 – Category:Democratic Labor Party (historical) politicians (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Utopes (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
Requested moves
- 25 Apr 2024 – Monarchy of Australia (talk · edit · hist) move request to Monarch of Australia by GMH Melbourne (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 17 Apr 2024 – David Pocock (political party) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to David Pocock by Totallynotarandomalt69 (t · c); see discussion
- 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
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)
Subpages[edit]
Bot-generated
- Missing topics – ranked by most red links
- Popular pages – ranking by daily average views
Tasks[edit]
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
Participants[edit]
Userbox: ((User WP AUP))
| 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
- PorthysekSA 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
Resources[edit]
- Adam Carr's Election Archive
- Archived websites of Australian electoral campaigns
- DMOZ Open Directory category: Australian Politics
Parentage[edit]
The parents of this WikiProject are
Templates[edit]
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
See Category:Australia politics and government navigational boxes
General
- ((Politics of Australia))
- ((Politics of Australia by state))
- ((Australian political parties))
- ((Parliaments of Australia))
- ((Australian governors))
- ((Australian premiers))
- ((Australian opposition leaders))
Federal
- ((Governors-General of Australia))
- ((Prime Ministers of Australia))
- ((Current New South Wales Representatives))
- ((Current Victoria Representatives))
- ((Current Queensland Representatives))
- ((Current Western Australia Representatives))
- ((Current South Australia Representatives))
- ((Current Tasmania Representatives))
- ((Current Australian Capital and Northern Territory Representatives))
- ((Australian Senators))
- ((Australian Cabinet))
- ((Leaders of the Australian Labor Party))
- ((Leaders of the Liberal Party of Australia))
- ((Leaders of the National Party of Australia))
- ((Australian federal divisions of New South Wales))
- ((Australian federal divisions of Victoria))
- ((Australian federal divisions of Queensland))
- ((Australian federal divisions of Western Australia))
- ((Australian federal divisions of South Australia))
- ((Australian federal divisions of Tasmania))
- ((Australian federal divisions of the Australian Capital and Northern Territories))
New South Wales
- ((Government of New South Wales))
- ((Governors of New South Wales))
- ((Premiers of New South Wales))
- ((NSWCurrentMLAs))
- ((NSWCurrentMLCs))
- ((Cabinet of New South Wales))
- ((Electoral districts of New South Wales))
Victoria
- ((Government of Victoria))
- ((Governors of Victoria))
- ((Premiers of Victoria))
- ((VicCurrentMLAs))
- ((VicCurrentMLCs))
- ((Cabinet of Victoria))
- ((Electoral districts of Victoria))
Queensland
- ((Government of Queensland))
- ((Governors of Queensland))
- ((Premiers of Queensland))
- ((QldCurrentMPs))
- ((Cabinet of Queensland))
- ((Electoral districts of Queensland))
Western Australia
- ((Government of Western Australia))
- ((Governors of Western Australia))
- ((Premiers of Western Australia))
- ((WACurrentMLAs))
- ((WACurrentMLCs))
- ((Cabinet of Western Australia))
- ((Electoral districts of Western Australia))
South Australia
- ((Government of South Australia))
- ((Governors of South Australia))
- ((Premiers of South Australia))
- ((SACurrentMHAs))
- ((SACurrentMLCs))
- ((Cabinet of South Australia))
- ((Electoral districts of South Australia))
Tasmania
- ((Government of Tasmania))
- ((Governors of Tasmania))
- ((Premiers of Tasmania))
- ((TasCurrentMHAs))
- ((Tasmanian Legislative Council members))
- ((Cabinet of Tasmania))
- ((Electoral divisions of Tasmania))
Northern Territory
- ((Government of the Northern Territory))
- ((Administrators of the Northern Territory))
- ((Chief Ministers of the Northern Territory))
- ((NTCurrentMPs))
- ((Electoral divisions of the Northern Territory))
Australian Capital Territory
- ((Government of the Australian Capital Territory))
- ((Chief Ministers of the Australian Capital Territory))
- ((ACTCurrentMLAs))
Norfolk Island
- ((NorfolkIsPMs))
Local
- ((Aus LGA))
- ((Local Government Areas of New South Wales))
- ((Local Government Areas of Victoria))
- ((Local Government Areas of Queensland))
- ((Local Government Areas of Western Australia))
- ((Local Government Areas of South Australia))
- ((Local Government Areas of Tasmania))
- ((Local Government Areas of the Northern Territory))
Stubs
- ((Australia-gov-stub))
- ((Australia-politician-stub))
- ((Australia-Labor-politician-stub))
- ((Australia-Liberal-politician-stub))
- ((Australia-National-politician-stub))
- ((AustralianGreens-politician-stub))
Categories[edit]
- This WikiProject: Category:Politics of Australia
- Category:Indigenous Australian politics
- Category:Australian constitutional law
- Category:Elections in Australia
- Category:Government of Australia
- Category:Immigration to Australia
- Category:Australian intelligence agencies
- Category:Australian labour movement
- Category:Australian Labor Party politicians
- Category:Law enforcement in Australia
- Category:Local government areas of Australia
- Category:Official residences in Australia
- 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
[edit]
- WikiProject Australian law
- Biography: Politicians
- WikiProject U.S. Congress
- WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies
- WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada
Copyright[edit]
With the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and where otherwise noted, all textual material presented on Australian websites, including Australian Stories is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence. http://australia.gov.au/about/copyright
In Addition to the general disclaimer some departments and ministers have their own copyright statements (attached to their websites), please reference these statements in any uploads to commons. The Attorney Generals department also maintains the most generic copyright statement for the Australian Government, if I doubt about a copyright status, contact the publisher, or do not upload it.
