Most of them are of military fame. Here’s today’s: Bruce Kingsbury - Wikipedia
Others in recent months:
Jan. 1: Lachlan Macquarie - Wikipedia
Dec. 10: Nicky Barr - Wikipedia
Oct. 5: John Lloyd Waddy - Wikipedia
Can’t remember the last American, Chinese, Russian, Brit, Japanese or Frenchman thus featured. Is there a particularly influential Australian among Wiki management?
More likely a person or organized group of people who are good at crafting articles focused to Aussie history. The front page uses the pool of top-quality articles (“Featured articles”), so a group that hammers out a method for consistently meeting the featured article criteria could easily have a run like that. Click on the talk tab of the pages and you can see info on their quality rating and when they were featured.
And another today: Iven Mackay - Wikipedia
Still no intervening American, Chinese, Russian, British, Japanese or French officer in the meantime.
From here, just for February 2016:
February 1: Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (Madagascar)
February 4: Abe Waddington (England)
February 6: Hugh Beadle (Rhodesia)
February 11: Josiah Willard Gibbs (US)
February 15: Chester A Arthur (US)
February 17: Myles Standish (England)
February 23: Military career of John McCain (US)
February 24: Æthelberht (England)
February 27: Arthur W Radford (US)
We are just that frickin’ awesome, that’s all.
I’ve actually wondered that too (and no, I don’t have anything to do with it).
I don’t really have any insights into why it might be, beyond agreeing there’s a lot of very dedicated amateur historians in this country and it’s quite possible that the Australian Military Taskforce on Wikipedia has a couple of talented people with the combination of time, knowledge, research ability and writing skills to ensure there’s quite a few Australian military folks ending up on the front page.
Huh. Thanks. For some reason the Australians really stand out.