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Welcome to WikiProject Geelong! This WikiProject aims primarily to create, fill out, build, edit, construct, and modify articles about the city of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
If you would like to join this project, we would love your help, so please add your name to the list below, and look at the to-do list for some suggestions on articles that you may be able to help with. You may also inquire on the talk page, or visit the Australian Wikipedians' noticeboard for collaboration on Australian articles in general.
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- 19 October 2026 –
- Independent Australian MP Helen Haines is deliberately hit by a car outside her office in Wangaratta, Victoria. Police arrest the car's driver, while Haines is airlifted to a hospital. Haines later had both her legs amputated. (AFP) (The Guardian) (Reuters)
- 16 October 2026 – Australia–Fiji relations
- Australia agrees to provide Fiji with solar-, wind-, and wave-powered Bluebottle maritime drones and training for surveillance and efforts against drug trafficking and other transnational crime, with deployment expected in 2027. (AFP via RFI)
- 16 October 2026 –
- A judge in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, sentences three Mexican men to over 158 years in prison each for the murder of two Australians and an American in 2024. (AP)
- 7 October 2026 – Climate change in Australia, Mining in Australia
- Australia's High Court rejects MACH Energy's appeal to expand the Mount Pleasant coal mine in New South Wales, finding that planning authorities failed to adequately consider greenhouse gas emissions from burning exported coal overseas. (AFP via France 24)
- 3 October 2026 –
- Ten people are injured, including some critically, in a motor vehicle hooning accident in Newcastle, Australia, during a Newcastle Knights procession before the NRL Grand Final. The driver is arrested at the scene. (DW) (Nine News)
- 29 September 2026 – Economic impact of the 2026 Iran war
- The Reserve Bank of Australia raises its cash rate by 0.25 percentage points to 4.60%, the highest level since 2011, citing persistently high inflation above its 2–3% target range. (AFP via France 24) (Reuters)
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Here are some tasks you can do to help at WikiProject Geelong:
- Quality watch
 0 FA-Class Geelong articles 3 GA-Class Geelong articles.
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If you wish to join us and assist, please add your name to the list of participants below.
- Rebecca (talk · contribs) (Joined January 5, 2006)
- Longhair (talk · contribs) (Joined January 5, 2006)
- Themit (talk · contribs) (Joined March 25, 2006)
- Reyk (talk · contribs) (Joined May 3, 2006)
- David.t.bath (talk · contribs)
- Patricknoddy (talk · contribs)
- Michaelbeckham (talk · contribs) (Joined March 17, 2006)
- Wongm (talk · contribs) (Joined June 11, 2007)
- kingteesdale (talk · contribs) (Joined December 17, 2007)
- Eyclonus (talk · contribs) (Joined June 25, 2008)
- ContrillionAU (talk) 10:18, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
- Balance of Power (talk · contribs) (Joined December 4, 2014)
- Guz34 (talk · contribs) (Joined December 4, 2018)
- GeelongManifesto (talk · contribs) (Joined October 17,2022)
- JML1148 (talk · contribs) (Joined June 9, 2023)
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WikiProject Geelong uses the {{WikiProject Australia}} template banner for article assessments.
The banner has a Geelong= parameter that provides article assessment ratings for Geelong-related articles:
Example usage: {{WikiProject Australia|Geelong=yes}}
Articles relating to WikiProject Geelong should have their talk pages tagged as per the above example.
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You can add {{User WikiProject Geelong}} to your user page, which will display the userbox on the right.
Also if you live in or are currently visiting Geelong, please add
[[Category:Wikipedians in Geelong|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]] to your user page.
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