List of active separatist movements in Oceania

This is a list of currently active separatist movements in Oceania. Separatism includes autonomism and secessionism.

Criteria

What is and is not considered an autonomist or secessionist movement is sometimes contentious. Entries on this list must meet three criteria:

1. They are active movements with active members.
2. They are seeking greater autonomy or self-determination for a geographic region (as opposed to personal autonomy).
3. They are citizens/people of the conflict area and do not come from another country.

Under each region listed is one or more of the following:

• De facto state (de facto entity): for unrecognized regions with de facto autonomy.
• Proposed state: proposed name for a seceding sovereign state.
• Proposed autonomous area: for movements towards greater autonomy for an area but not outright secession.
  • De facto autonomous government: for governments with de facto autonomous control over a region.
  • Government-in-exile: for a government based outside of the region in question, with or without control.
  • Political party (or parties): for political parties involved in a political system to push for autonomy or secession.
  • Militant organisation(s): for armed organisations.
  • Advocacy group(s): for non-belligerent, non-politically participatory entities.
  • Ethnic/ethno-religious/racial/regional/religious group(s).

Australia

Aboriginal Australians

• Proposed states or autonomous areas: The Aboriginal Tent Embassy has demanded that the government give Aboriginals control of the Northern Territory as a state along with various other claimed areas by different advocacy groups.
  • Advocacy groups: Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Murrawarri Republic, Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia^[1] Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, Aboriginal Provisional Government, Yuggera Ugarapul Tribal People's,^[2][3][4][5]
    Sovereign Yidindji Government,^[6] ,Euahlayi People's Republic,^[7][8] Torres Strait Islands,
    Republic of Mbarbaram,Wiradjuri Central West Republic, Mirrabooka Sovereign United Nations, Djurin Republic and various others
  • Political parties: Indigenous-Aboriginal Party of Australia
  • Movements: Blak Sovereignty movement (see also: Lidia Thorpe#Resignation from the Greens)

 Norfolk Island

• Proposed: Norfolk Island as an autonomous region of Australia or free association with New Zealand^[9]
  • Advocacy groups: Norfolk Island Party^[10]

 Western Australia

• Proposed state or autonomous area: Western Australia
  • Political party: WAxit Party,^[11] Western Australia Party

 Victoria

• Proposed state: Victoria
  • Advocacy group: Victorian Independence Movement^[12][13]

 Northern Territory

• Proposed: Statehood for Northern Territory within Australia
  • Political party: Country Liberal Party

Chile

 Rapa Nui (Easter Island)^[14][15]

• Ethnic group: Rapa Nui
• Proposed state:  Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

France

 French Polynesia^[16]

• Proposed state or autonomous region:
  Tahiti or Kingdom of Tahiti
  • Political party (secessionist): Tavini Huiraatira
  • Political parties (autonomist): A here ia Porinetia, ʻĀmuitahiraʻa o te Nūnaʻa Māʻohi, Ia Ora te Nuna'a, Tāpura Huiraʻatira, No Oe E Te Nunaa

 New Caledonia^[17]

• Ethnic groups: Kanaks, Caldoche
• Proposed state:
  New Caledonia or Kanaky
  • Political parties: Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front, Caledonian Union, Party of Kanak Liberation, Kanak Socialist Liberation, Labour Party, Federation of Pro-Independence Co-operation Committees, Renewed Caledonian Union, Oceanian Democratic Rally, Melanesian Progressive Union

Indonesia

Maluku (province)

• Ethnic group: Moluccans
• Proposed state:
  South Moluccas
  • Government-in-exile: Republic of South Moluccas (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
  • Advocacy group: Maluku Sovereignty Front

Papua

• Ethnic group: Papuans
• Proposed state:
  West Papua or unification with
  Papua New Guinea^[18]
  • Government-in-exile: Republic of West Papua (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
  • Militant organisation: Free Papua Movement, West Papua National Liberation Army
  • Advocacy group: United Liberation Movement for West Papua

New Zealand

South Island

• People: South Islanders
  • Proposed state or autonomous area: South Island, New Munster Province or New Munster Republic
  • Political party: South Island Independence Movement^[19]
  • Pressure group: South Island First^[20]

Papua New Guinea

• Proposed state:
  Bougainville
  • Political parties: Bougainville Independence Movement, Bougainville Labour Party, Bougainville People's Congress,New Bougainville Party,Bougainville Islands Unity Party

Solomon Islands

Malaita Province

• Proposed state: Malaita^[21]
  • Political party: Malaita for Democracy^[22]

United States

 Hawaii^[23][24][25]

• Ethnic group: Native Hawaiians, Haoles
• Proposed: Creating Native Hawaiian nations within the state of Hawaii equal to Native American nations, Independence under free association with the USA, or complete independence from the USA
  • Pressure groups: Nation of Hawaiʻi (organization), Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi
  • Political party: Aloha ʻĀina Party

 Guam and  Northern Mariana Islands^[26]

• Ethnic group: Chamorro people
  • Proposed: Statehood,^[27] Independence or Independence under free association with the USA
  • Advocacy groups: Chamorro Nation
  • Political party: Commission on Decolonization^{[28][29][30][31]}

Vanuatu

Espiritu Santo

• Ethnic group: Ni-Vanuatu
• Proposed autonomous area: Vemerana
  • Political party: Nagriamel

See also

• Lists of active separatist movements
• List of historical separatist movements

References

This page was last edited on 12 March 2024, at 14:40