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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).

[edit] Goals

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

[edit] Scope

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

1. articles relating to any subjects raised about Indigenous Australian's here or here

2. articles listed, or to be listed in the 'Indigenous Australian's navigation guide here.

3. articles relating to each, any, or all of the indigenous Australian groups listed here

[edit] Guidelines

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

[edit] Open tasks

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

[edit] Members

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

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.
Cygnis insignis (talk · contribs)
Euryalus (talk · contribs)
Gnangarra (talk · contribs)
Hack (talk · contribs) - Aboriginal sportspeople, mostly football (soccer)...
Omnipedian (talk · contribs) - Indigenous Australian Linguistics.
Hamiltonstone (talk · contribs) Indigenous art
Paul foord (talk · contribs)
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.
WikiTownsvillian (talk · contribs) mostly interested in the Bwgcolman People and the history of Palm.
schomynv (talk · contribs) works in the German speaking Wikipedia and often translates articles.

[edit] Parentage

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[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

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

[edit] Featured articles

Yagan

[edit] Candidates

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the Month.

Current Collaboration of the month: TO BE NOMINATED

Peer review

[edit] 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.

Susan Charles Rankin --Takver (talk) 15:30, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Thomas Dunolly --Takver (talk) 15:30, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Franklinford, Victoria --Takver (talk) 15:30, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Edward Stone Parker --Takver (talk) 15:30, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Campaspe Plains massacre --Takver (talk) 15:30, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Gulidjan --Takver (talk) 12:15, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Gadubanud --Takver (talk) 12:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Murdering_Gully_massacre 1839 massacre of the Djargurd Wurrung people --Takver (talk) 12:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Djargurd_Wurrung --Takver (talk) 12:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Blood_Hole_massacre of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. --Takver (talk) 12:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Djab_Wurrung --Takver (talk) 12:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Jardwadjali --Takver (talk) 12:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Munangabum a Spiritual Leader or neyerneyemeet of the Dja Dja Wurrung people in central Victoria --Takver (talk) 12:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Gordon Briscoe - Academic and activist - Hack (talk) 04:08, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Trial of Lex Wotton - two time councillor on the Palm Island involved in the 2004 riots there. -- Suntag ☼ 07:18, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Arweet - clan headman of the Bunurong and Wathaurong peoples --Takver (talk) 01:03, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Taungurong - another tribe of the Kulin --Takver (talk) 21:55, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Billibellary --Takver (talk) 04:08, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Wurundjeri Tribe Land Compensation and Cultural Heritage Council --Takver (talk) 14:21, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Joy Murphy Wandin --Takver (talk) 12:30, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
James Wandin --Takver (talk) 12:30, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Battle of Yering --Takver (talk) 12:30, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Murrundindi --Takver (talk) 12:30, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Burragubba 22 September 2008
Bundjalung people 16 May 2008
Djabugay people Really an expansion, but includes infobox which propose to use on further Aboriginal people articles
Indigenous Protected Areas 8 May 2008
Australian Aborigines 25 March 2008
List of laws concerning Indigenous Australians 23 March 2008 - needs expansion

[edit] 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:Dja Dja Wurrung - to consolidate articles on Dja Dja Wurrung people, events, culture, history and society.--Takver (talk) 15:32, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Category:Wurundjeri - to consolidate articles on Wurundjeri people, events, culture, history and society. --Takver (talk) 12:19, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Category:Indigenous Australia related lists

[edit] Articles in need of attention

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

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)

[edit] Article requests

Aboriginal Affairs (Arrangements with the States) Act 1973
Aboriginal Land Rights Commission (1973-1974)
Stolen wages (see AIATSIS Stolen Wages - a resource guide)
Education and Indigenous Australians
Australian Aboriginal religion see discussion

[edit] Version 1.0 assessments

Index · Statistics · Log

Indigenous peoples of Australia articles		Importance
Indigenous peoples of Australia articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		1				1
	GA		1			1	2
	B	4	10	4	1	12	31
	C	3	6	3	3	13	28
	Start	12	60	85	18	98	273
	Stub	3	34	96	24	169	326
	List	12	1	1		17	31
	Assessed	34	113	189	46	310	692
	Unassessed	1				4	5
	Total	35	113	189	46	314	697

For more information about Version 1.0 assessments, see WP:1.0 and WP:WVWP.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Assessment
- Category:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia articles
  - Category:Indigenous peoples of Australia articles by quality
  - Category:Indigenous peoples of Australia articles by importance

[edit] Categories

The main category is category:Indigenous peoples of Australia, the category:Indigenous Australians is for articles on individual Indigenous Australians.

When an article is found - and does not have the Indigenous project in the discussion page tag - the tag should appear like:- WP Australia | Indigenous=yes to have it included within the project

[edit] Resources

Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements Project, an Australian Research Council linkage project
Information sheets and bibliographies at AIATSIS

[edit] Article alerts

Good article nominations

13 Jun 2009 – Makinti Napanangka (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Hamiltonstone.

Did you know

3 Jul 2009 – A fact from Kiwirrkurra, Western Australia (talk) appeared on the main page.
26 Jun 2009 – A fact from Liam Jurrah (talk) appeared on the main page.

Other news

29 June 2009 – A compilation of Academic Journal has been generated from the |journal= parameter found in citation templates, identifying the 500 most cited journals, and 500 most cited journals without articles.
18 June 2009 – A new database dump is available. The cleanup listings from WolterBot should be updated.
15 June 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
30 Apr 2009 – WikiProjects can sign up for Announcements & Milestones, listing the milestones of a particular projects (such as 10th FA, etc...). The list is managed by LivingBot.

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