Federal MP Bob Katter plans to introduce legislation to Parliament to restrict the sale of inauthentic Aboriginal art.

Mr Katter, the Member for Kennedy in Queensland, said it was a response to calls from a coalition of Aboriginal artists worried about an influx of mass-produced artwork made overseas.

Campaigners claim up to 80 per cent of shops selling art that appears to be Indigenous are selling inauthentic work.

Organisations, including the Indigenous Art Code and Arts Law Centre, want a licensing scheme in place before the Commonwealth Games next year bring an anticipated flood of knock-off work.

Mr Katter said he would introduce a private member's bill when federal parliament resumes next month.

"Most of that stuff that you see is not done by First Australians, it is done by foreigners, and it's going to stop," he said.

"I'm sick of buying my grandkids a bullroarer that doesn't roar, buying a woomera that won't throw a spear, a boomerang that won't come back.

"They are purporting to be First Australian products and they're not … there is a deceit upon the public of Australia."

Campaigners have been visiting shops around the country to see how many products being sold are fake. ( ABC News: Karen Michelmore )

Inauthentic Indigenous art has been alarming Aboriginal artists for decades.

Under Mr Katter's proposed scheme, all products sold as Aboriginal craft would have to be licensed and carry a logo in a similar fashion to the already existing Australian Made logo.

"That certification would be given by a board … only on the basis that you can prove somewhere in your family tree you've got a First Australian," Mr Katter said.

"We developed it, it's our culture, you can't take it off us and use it to make a quid for yourself."

A spokesperson for Commonwealth Games Minister Stirling Hinchliffe said local companies had been engaged to develop official Indigenous merchandise for the Gold Coast games.

"All GC2018 Indigenous products are and will continue to be made in Australia by Indigenous Australians," the spokesperson said.