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Welcome to the Indigenous peoples of Australia WikiProject. This is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Australia's indigenous peoples.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

This project is dedicated to creating, improving, and maintaining articles related to Australia's indigenous peoples

Scope

The scope of this project is all matters specifically relating to any or all the indigenous peoples of Australia, including:

articles relating to any subjects raised about Indigenous Australian's here or here
articles listed, or to be listed in the 'Indigenous Australian's navigation guide here.
articles relating to each, any, or all of the indigenous Australian groups listed here

As of 10 November 2024, there are 3,374 articles within the scope of WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia, of which 12 are featured and 11 good articles. This makes up 0.05% of the articles on Wikipedia and 0.11% of featured articles and lists, with 0.03% classified as good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 7,862 pages in the project.

Guidelines

For best practices in creating and editing articles, see the Wikipedia:Manual of Style.

Open 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.

This is a new project, and several things need to be done. Many of these things will remain important as the project develops. Among them are:

Recruiting members and keeping them active and interested
Improving any articles falling within the scope of this project
Creating any articles which are important, but have not currently been created
Actively watching, monitoring, and maintaining the quality and integrity of existing articles about indigenous Australians, including making any changes as necessary

Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Aliceinthealice (talk · contribs) has a particular focus on the Northern Territory
Ben Dawid (talk · contribs) Aboriginal history, culture and current affairs.
Boylo (talk · contribs)
Bruceanthro (talk · contribs) My area of interest is in the Aboriginal groups, beliefs, anthropology, and cultural landscapes of North Queensland specifically; and Australia more generally.
Clare. (talk · contribs) Especially Canberra-area Aboriginal history, but also broadly Aboriginal culture, celebrities, art and social issues
Cygnis insignis (talk · contribs)
Euryalus (talk · contribs)
Gnangarra (talk · contribs)
Hack (talk · contribs) - Aboriginal sportspeople, mostly football (soccer)...
Hamiltonstone (talk · contribs) Indigenous art
Jembana (talk · contribs) NSW indigenous languages especially Darug and Kamilaroi, also Walpiri and Jarwoyn
John D. Croft (talk · contribs) West Australian Aboriginal history and culture
Laterthanyouthink (talk · contribs)
LizLou (talk · contribs)
MatthewDalhousie (talk · contribs) is especially interested in contact history, mission stories and indigenous justice movements up to and including 1967
Paul foord (talk · contribs)
RayNorris (talk · contribs) - especially Aboriginal Astronomy, but also culture, art, social issues
schomynv (talk · contribs) works in the German speaking Wikipedia and often translates articles.
Takver (talk - contribs ) - Takver: from a local historical perspective I'm working on the pages associated with the Kulin peoples in Victoria, most notably the Wurundjeri.
Wikiain (talk · contribs) Australian constitutional law
WikiTownsvillian (talk · contribs) mostly interested in the Bwgcolman People and the history of Palm.
WLRoss (talk · contribs)
Macropneuma (talk · contribs)
Zaddikskysong (talk · contribs) Kunwinjku people and Arnhem Land
BlackfullaLinguist (talk · contribs)
Alabama81bornandbred (talk · contribs) my interest is Aboriginal culture pre-colonisation
Runciblehon (talk · contribs)
Locochoko (talk · contribs) Indigenous literature and current prominent figures in the community
Boneso (talk · contribs) Anything that grabs my interest, particularly Gippsland massacres which are difficult due to the lack of easily accessible reference material. Also interested in improving current pages.
Espermela (talk · contribs) Indigenous perspectives in academia, anthropology, making local histories available, accurate and complete (Victoria, Kulin nation, Woi wurrung language group)
99of9 (talk · contribs) I will be co-facilitating a First Nations Editathon in July 2021.
Anna Goodwin12345 (talk · contribs)
Poketama (talk · contribs) Currently working on including accurate Aboriginal placenames on articles, especially within Victoria.
Thomas_Norren (talk · contribs) Yidiny and surrounding people
Yainsley (talk · contribs) post colonial (particularly post federation) indigenous history and the gungarri people of south QLD.

Parentage

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Articles

Featured content

This section is an incomplete list of Featured articles, Featured pictures, and Featured lists within the scope of this project.

Featured articles

Candidates

Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the Month.

Current Collaboration of the month: TO BE NOMINATED

Peer review

New articles

Please feel free to list any new articles falling within the scope of this project here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

Cooman
Adrian Russell Wills
Djab Wurrung Heritage Protection Embassy
Bunjil's Shelter
Darby Munro
Cleverman
Smoking ceremony
Redfern Park
Jillian Gallagher
Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
Tribal Warrior
Mount Willoughby Indigenous Protected Area
Warratyi
Yemmerrawanne, accompanied Bennelong to England and died there
Shane Mortimer born 1955, a prominent Ngambri elder.
Poltpalingada Booboorowie born ca. 1830 – died July 4, 1901. A prominent Ngarrindjeri man.
NPY Women's Council
The Deadlys Award winners 2012
Marlene Cummins
Cylcon
Gulgibarra

New categories

Please feel free to list any new categories falling within the scope of this project here (newer categories at the top, please).

Category: Aboriginal Victorians (Australia) - created as a parent category for cats and pages related to Aboriginal history/people/geography in Victoria, replacing category using term 'Aborigines'.--Espermela (talk) 07:07, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Indigenous protected areas in South Australia - create to group together articles about IPAs located in South Australia. Cowdy001 (talk) 03:38, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Dja Dja Wurrung - to consolidate articles on Dja Dja Wurrung people, events, culture, history and society.--Takver (talk) 15:32, 25 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Wurundjeri - to consolidate articles on Wurundjeri people, events, culture, history and society. --Takver (talk) 12:19, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Indigenous Australia related lists
Category:Bundjalung - to consolidate articles on Bundjalung people, events, culture, history and society. Locochoko (talk) 02:37, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Articles in need of attention

(Usually with either WP:N, WP:V, WP:RS or other issues that require some action)

Indigenous Australian sport - the section labelled "Participation with European Australians" says that, "The British discouraged Indigenous Australians from continuing their existing sporting traditions," but there is no mention in the article of what those sporting traditions were. the whole article is written from the perspective of a European Australian congratulating themselves for allowing indigenous first nations folk to participate in European sport. this article takes the same approach. it talks about first nations people participating in Europen sports like cricket and rugby, but despite acknowledging that they have a history going back 60,000 years fails to mention any sporting tradition of their own. maybe this might be relevant to someoone wanting to grow the article. here is something else that might be considered. or this.
Aboriginal sacred site requires research, referencing, and expansion (see Talk:Aboriginal sacred site)
Aboriginal Protection Board needs expansion
Aboriginal history of Western Australia, Timeline of Aboriginal history of Western Australia, Aboriginal groupings of Western Australia need work‎
List of Australian Aboriginal deities - see discussion
No mention of Racism in Indigenous Australians (cross ref Human rights in Australia)
William Barak needs more in-text citations
Melissa Lucashenko needs updating and her novels Mullumbimby and Too Much Lip require additional discussion about their cultural and political context.
Harry Hewitt - One of the first senior Australian rules footballers. Also an advocate for revoking fishing licences for Indigenous people and not drinking alcohol.
Adrian Russell Wills needs proof of notability

Article requests

Aboriginal Affairs (Arrangements with the States) Act 1973
Stolen wages (see AIATSIS Stolen Wages - a resource guide and ANTAR Stolen Wages & Hard Labour: Stolen Wages)
Education and Indigenous Australians
Robert Wills (aka Bobby Sinn February 7, 1932 - July 23, 2009 [The Courier-Mail, July 28, 2009 Page 64]
List of native title claims in Australia (there is a List of native title claims in South Australia)
St Johns Wood, Queensland Seeking Aboriginal History information for this area to include in this page.
Indigenous Australian agriculture - there was once an article related to this topic Cathy Pryor(15 May 2014 11:06AM), , Rethinking Indigenous Australia's agricultural past, ABC Radio National. See the previous, poorly sourced, poorly informed, deletion comments, here. I have many scholarly reference sources to share and assist with, but not time to do the whole article alone.--Macropneuma 04:10, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Shane Phillips - He currently falls under the Tribal Warrior article, but I believe he is prominent enough to warrant his own article.Locochoko (talk) 02:38, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Version 1.0 assessments

Index · Statistics · Log

Indigenous peoples of Australia articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			8	4			12
A				1			1
GA		1	1	9			11
B	9	31	40	103		2	185
C	11	67	104	480		9	671
Start	7	72	185	1,336		15	1,615
Stub		14	52	739		7	812
List	16	6	3	42			67
Category				1	382		383
Disambig				1	10		11
Project					5		5
Redirect	1	2	22	40	57		122
Template					32		32
NA					1		1
Other					1		1
Assessed	44	193	415	2,756	488	33	3,929
Total	44	193	415	2,756	488	33	3,929
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 16,209			Ω = 4.90