Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian politics

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• 15 Mar 2026 – Stephen Jolly (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by TarnishedPath (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Mar 2026 – March for Australia (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by TarnishedPath (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 10 Mar 2026 – United Voice Australia Party (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Aesurias (t · c) was closed as redirect by Servite et contribuere (t · c) on 17 Mar 2026; see discussion (5 participants)

Categories for discussion

• 14 Mar 2026 – Category:Ambassadors of Bolivia to Australia (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by AusLondonder (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Mar 2026 – Category:Ambassadors of Bhutan to Australia (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by AusLondonder (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Mar 2026 – Category:Ambassadors of Algeria to Australia (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Johnpacklambert (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Mar 2026 – Category:Ambassadors of Albania to Australia (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Johnpacklambert (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 08 Mar 2026 – National Socialist Network (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TarnishedPath (t · c); start discussion
• 28 Jan 2026 – Andrew Hastie (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
• 30 Nov 2025 – Monica Smit (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TarnishedPath (t · c); start discussion
• 09 Nov 2025 – Jacob Hersant (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TarnishedPath (t · c); start discussion
• 11 Oct 2025 – Teresa van Lieshout (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TarnishedPath (t · c); start discussion

Peer reviews

• 07 Mar 2026 – National Socialist Network (talk · edit · hist) put up for PR by TarnishedPath (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Requested moves

• 11 Mar 2026 – 2026 National Party of Australia leadership spill motion (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to February 2026 National Party of Australia leadership spill motion by Marcnut1996 (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Mar 2026 – Australian orders of precedence (talk · edit · hist) move request somewhere else by Chaotic Enby (t · c) was moved to Order of precedence in Australia (talk · edit · hist) by Jacksonvil (t · c) on 17 Mar 2026; see discussion
• 06 Mar 2026 – Australian Intelligence Community (talk · edit · hist) move request to Australian intelligence community by An anonymous username, not my real name (t · c) was moved to Australian intelligence community (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 19 Mar 2026; 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)

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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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• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Australia
• User:AuspolUpdater (User talk:AuspolUpdater)
• The Kora Person (talk · contribs); Vic Politics and 2000s Federal

• 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}}
• {{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

• This WikiProject: Category:Politics of Australia
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  • 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

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