Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history

The WikiProject on Australian history is a project aimed towards the development and expansion of articles on the history of Australia.

Articles maintained by this WikiProject are grouped in Category:WikiProject Australian history articles by using the history=yes parameter within the WP Australia template. Articles more relevant to descendant workgroups use special parameters (see below).

Usage:

Goals

 * To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of Australian history.
 * To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australian history by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
 * To address POV issues and tentative edits in articles within the scope of the project.
 * To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to the history of Australia in Wikipedia.

Scope
The project generally considers any article related to prehistorical, historical or modern-day affairs of Australia and its territories to be within its scope. As history we regard the study and interpretation of the record of humans, families, and societies as preserved primarily through written sources. In other words, ambition of the project is to cover articles related to:
 * the history of ancient Australia.
 * the history of the indigenous Australians.
 * the history of European settlement in Australia
 * the history of migration in Australia
 * the present day history of Australia

Parent of this WikiProject:
Parent project(s)
 * WikiProject Australia (a child of WikiProject Countries)
 * WikiProject History

Sister/Child Project
Sister Project
 * '''Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history task force

Sister/child Project
 * WikiProject Australian maritime history
 * History of Australian Exploration task force

Article list
Articles maintained by this WikiProject or related to this Wikiproject, are grouped in a number of categories. They are added to these categories by using parameters with the WP Australia template which is added to the Talk page.

A combination of these parameters may be used for articles that bridge two categories.

Disasters

 * Australian historiography
 * Prehistory
 * Indigenous Australians prior to European Settlement
 * Statehood and territories
 * Australia as a Nation
 * Australian Capital Territory
 * New South Wales
 * Tasmania
 * Queensland
 * Western Australia
 * Victoria
 * South Australia
 * Northern Territory
 * New Guinea
 * Institutions
 * Infrastructure
 * History of telegraph in Australia * a number of expedition articles and explorations relate to this subject. see Exploration
 * Culture
 * Sports
 * Law and Crime
 * Economy
 * Politics
 * War and Military see Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history task force, a task force of WikiProject Military history
 * Statistics History
 * Sciences
 * International Relations
 * Russian scare
 * Immigration
 * Government
 * Religion
 * Maritime History - see WikiProject Australian maritime history
 * Pioneers

Related pages
Similar WikiProjects
 * WikiProject History of Greece
 * WikiProject History of Poland

Related Portals
 * Portal:Australia
 * Portal:Military of Australia

Related Collaborations
 * Australian collaboration of the fortnight

Related Regional notice boards
 * Australian Wikipedians' notice board

Related groups of Wikipedians
 * see Category:Australian Wikipedians

Participants
Userbox: User WP AUSTHIST

General strategy and discussion forums
Pre-existing standards and consensi: Refer to WikiProject History for pre-existing standards.

Tasks

1. Add  |history=yes  to the tags on all the pages at:
 * Category:Australian archaeology
 * Category:Australian explorers
 * Category:Immigration to Australia
 * Category:Australian inventions
 * Category:Australian history-related lists
 * Category:Australian suffragists
 * Category:Convictism in Australia
 * Category:Crime in Australia
 * Category:Cyclones in Australia
 * Category:Disasters in Australia
 * Category:Elections in Australia
 * Category:Exploration of Australia
 * Category:Histories of cities in Australia
 * Category:History of Australia
 * Category:History of the Australian Capital Territory
 * Category:History of New South Wales
 * Category:History of the Northern Territory
 * Category:History of Queensland
 * Category:History of South Australia
 * Category:History of Tasmania
 * Category:History of Victoria (Australia)
 * Category:History of Western Australia
 * Category:Maps of the history of Australia
 * Category:Military history of Australia
 * Category:Members of Australian Parliaments by term
 * Category:Natural history of Australia
 * Category:Political history of Australia
 * Category:Rebellions in Australasia
 * Category:Riots in Australia
 * Category:Settlers of Australia
 * Category:Ships of the First Fleet


 * Category:Years in Australia

2. Create the missing "18XX in Australia" articles listed at Australian Wikipedians' notice board/19xx in Australia - missing years.


 * 1) other tasks to be added

General timelines

 * Significant dates in Australian History from 1486-1945
 * Documenting a Democracy - timeline at founding docs
 * Timeline - Pre-Contact
 * Australia History - Brief Timeline
 * Key dates in Australia's development as a culturally diverse nation
 * A parallel history of Australia and the world
 * HISTORICAL TIMELINE Compiled by Anne Mavric
 * Australian science, technology and invention timeline 2.24
 * Australia's Constitutional Milestones
 * The world upside down: Australia 1788-1830
 * A chronology of Federation
 * Australia’s major electoral developments
 * Timeline of events at the time of Federation 1
 * Timeline of events at the time of Federation 2
 * Electoral events timeline 1
 * Electoral events timeline 2
 * Timeline of the Nation
 * Timeline – national and state
 * 19th Century South Australian History Timeline
 * Chronology
 * State History and Chronology
 * Australian Timeline
 * Australian History Timeline
 * John Curtin's legacy: Leading Australia from war to peace - chronology
 * Australian 20th century timelines
 * A selected history of Australia

Archaeology/Land Surveys

 * Occasional Reports Series: Victoria