Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian politics

WikiProject Australian Politics
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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

Australian politics articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	3	3	2	10		18
FL	3					3
GA	1	10	13	37		61
B	30	56	86	228		400
C	24	125	179	1,351		1,679
Start	13	195	503	5,648		6,359
Stub		12	113	6,305		6,430
List	2	13	230	3,681		3,926
Category					1,889	1,889
Disambig					41	41
File					62	62
Project					6	6
Redirect					499	499
Template					531	531
Other				3	1	4
Assessed	76	414	1,126	17,263	3,029	21,908
Total	76	414	1,126	17,263	3,029	21,908
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 78,413			Ω = 5.25

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30 Jun 2026 – Teresa van Lieshout (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by TarnishedPath (t · c); see discussion
29 Jun 2026 – Jacob Hersant (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by TarnishedPath (t · c); see discussion
26 Jun 2026 – Andrew Hastie (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by TarnishedPath (t · c); see discussion

Proposed deletions

27 Jul 2026 – 2026 Victorian Labor Party leadership spill (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Qwerty123M (t · c) was redirected to 2026 Victorian Labor Party leadership election (talk · edit · hist) by Qwerty123M (t · c) on 27 Jul 2026

Categories for discussion

31 Jul 2026 – Category:Ambassadors of Australia to Colombia (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Johnpacklambert (t · c); see discussion
31 Jul 2026 – Category:Ambassadors of Australia to Zimbabwe (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Johnpacklambert (t · c); see discussion
13 Jul 2026 – Category:Ambassadors of Australia to San Marino (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Johnpacklambert (t · c); see discussion
13 Jul 2026 – Category:Ambassadors of Australia to Romania (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Johnpacklambert (t · c); see discussion

Templates for discussion

27 Jul 2026 – Template:WA Inc (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Steelkamp (t · c); see discussion

A-Class review

undated – Andrew Hastie (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review

Good article nominees

02 Jul 2026 – Parliament House, Adelaide (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pangalau (t · c); start discussion
16 Jun 2026 – Tom Calma (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pangalau (t · c); start discussion
06 Jun 2026 – Jane Lomax-Smith (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pangalau (t · c); start discussion
29 May 2026 – Isobel Redmond (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pangalau (t · c); start discussion
22 May 2026 – Kevin Scarce (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pangalau (t · c); start discussion
18 May 2026 – Vincent Tarzia (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pangalau (t · c); start discussion
28 Apr 2026 – 2026 Invasion Day protest bombing attempt (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TarnishedPath (t · c); start discussion
06 Apr 2026 – Statewide Treaty Act 2025 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Qwerty123M (t · c); start discussion
08 Mar 2026 – National Socialist Network (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TarnishedPath (t · c); start discussion
13 Jan 2026 – Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Qwerty123M (t · c); start discussion

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Requests for comments

31 Jul 2026 – Scott Morrison (talk · edit · hist) RfC by Jack Upland (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Requested moves

31 Jul 2026 – Hannah Ferguson (commentator) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved somewhere else by Qwerty123M (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

27 May 2024 – Robert Menzies (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by ITBF (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)reply

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Tasks

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.

Participants

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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.
AverageFraud‬‬
Bduke Have already added some stuff for NT pollies. I lived in NT for 18 years, but am now in Melbourne.
AuspolScribe (talk · contribs)
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)reply
ColonialGrid
Comfisofa
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.
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
GMH Melbourne - Focusing mainly on Victoria-related areas.
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.
Cruzctrl - Main interest is WA & federal politics, and its history. WA Based.
Lisa Thurston (wd be glad to help out here)
LivelyRatification: Elections, parties, and specifically creating draft pages to new MPs at the new MPs subproject
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.
MatthewDalhousie - based in CBR.
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)reply
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
Purin475 - Victorian politics, focusing on Eastern Suburb seats
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 - Biographies
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
Viatori (talk · contribs)
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.
Wiki Townsvillia n
Western Australian Political Nerd
YellowMonkey -electorate issues
Minigoody101
LeoC12
SwiftyPeep
Champion (talk · contribs)
Politically Minded Stoner
Qwerty123M (talk · contribs)
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.
Zakary2012 (talk · contribs) - Poltical nerd from Melbourne, Victoria. Fixes articles about sitting and former politicians, especially Infoboxes
GassyTrucker (talk) 02:54, 6 September 2024 (UTC) - Interested in Politics especially regarding South Australiareply
User:AuspolUpdater (User talk:AuspolUpdater)
The Kora Person (talk · contribs); Vic Politics and 2000s Federal

Resources

Parentage

The parents of this WikiProject are

Templates

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}}
{{Election box candidate AU joint ticket}} 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~~ - Now points to defunct webpages

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{{Electoral districts of New South Wales}}

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Northern Territory

Australian Capital Territory

Norfolk Island

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