Joe Flick (c.1865 – 28 October 1889) was an Indigenous Australian outlaw famous for being one of the few people to have killed a Native Police officer. He also wounded the well-known British colonist Frank Hann in a shootout at Lawn Hill Station in the colony of Queensland.

It appears that Flick was born in the Mehi River region of northern New South Wales around the year 1865. His father was Henry (Harry) Flick, a German-Australian stockman who worked at the Mungyer property near Mallowa. His mother was an Aboriginal woman, who was probably of the Gamilaraay people.

Due to his mixed Aboriginal heritage, Joe Flick was judged by colonial Australian society to be a half-caste or yellow boy, derogatory terms designed to belittle his worth as a human based upon his darker skin. Despite the social stigma, Flick was accepted as a legitimate son by his father and spent at least part of his childhood on Mungyer Station where he was taught how to be a stockman. At the age of 13, Flick was injured by a horse while mustering on the property, resulting in a broken femur. He was treated at the hospital in Narrabri, where he made a good recovery.

Around 1880, Harry Flick took his Aboriginal wife and Joe north with him to the colony of Queensland, where they found work near Charleville, with Harry's wife presenting herself as a stockman. Harry soon assaulted and abducted an Aboriginal "half-caste" girl named Lizzie from the Mangalore homestead belonging to William Jenkins. Local policeman later caught Harry. He was found guilty of assault and sentenced to six months hard labour at the jail in Roma. Joe, who was around the age of 15 when this happened, was placed in the care of police at Charleville while his father was incarcerated.

In the early 1880s, after being released from prison, Harry Flick took his son Joe further north where they found employment on the Lawn Hill Station property of pioneer pastoralist Frank Hann. By this stage, Joe Flick had become a smart and athletic young man who was an expert horseman, an excellent marksman and was well regarded in the region as a good worker.

However, in April 1888, trouble again occurred over the possession of another Aboriginal girl who went by the name of Kitty. While journeying to Burketown for supplies, a quarrel over Kitty happened at the Beames Brook Hotel which resulted in Joe Flick firing a shot at the hotel's proprietor James Cashman which narrowly missed him. Cashman made a complaint to the police, and Flick later gave himself up to Constable Henry Hasenkamp. Flick was arrested and sent to the jail at Normanton to await trial. However, when he found out that he would be tried for attempted murder, Flick made his escape over the prison wall.

Flick stole some horses and made his escape hundreds of kilometres to the west into the Northern Territory which was then a frontier part of South Australia. Flick knew some of frontiersmen establishing grazing properties there and thought he could lay low out of trouble as an anonymous stockman. Conflict between the British colonists and the local Aboriginal people was ongoing at the time of Flick's escape and while travelling through the Gulf Country he had a skirmish with the Aborigines in which he was slightly injured.

Eventually he arrived at Hodgson Downs Station along the Hodgson River. The manager, James Crawford, allowed him to work as a stockman there. However, officers of the local mounted Native Police soon heard of Flick hiding out and in March 1889, a patrol led by Constable Robert Stott took him into custody at Hodgson Downs. Flick was chained with heavy irons and was led to Palmerston to be formally arrested. On the journey, Flick attempted to escape at Mount McMinn but was shot in the back and wounded by Stott before being recaptured.