List of active separatist movements in Oceania

This is a list of currently active separatist movements in Oceania. Separatism includes autonomism and secessionism. 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 living, active members.
  2. They are seeking greater autonomy or self-determination for a geographic region (as opposed to personal autonomy).
  3. They are the citizen/peoples of the contested area.

Under each region listed is one or more of the following (except for The United States which only has the last one):

Australia

Aboriginal Australians

 Murrawarri Republic

 Torres Strait Islands

 Western Australia

 Tasmania

  • Proposed state: Tasmania
    • Pressure groups: First Party of Tasmania

Chile

France

Federated States of Micronesia

 Chuuk

Indonesia

The map of native ethnic groups in Indonesia, foreign ethnic groups such as Chinese, Arab, and Indian are not shown, but usually inhabit urban areas.

Papua and West Papua[8]

Kiribati

Banaba Island

New Zealand

Cook Islands

Autonomist movements

South Island

Secessionist movements

Cook Islands

  • Ethnic group: Cook Islanders
    • Proposed state: Republic of the Cook Islands
      • Initiative by the Cook Islands Ariki which considers both the Cook Islands' previous status as a British protectorate and its current status as associated state of New Zealand to be illegitimate. Aims to set up the Cook Islands as a sovereign state independent of both the United Kingdom and New Zealand.[10]

Māori people

South Island

Papua New Guinea

Autonomist movements

 New Ireland

  • Proposed autonomous province: New Ireland[11]

Secessionist movements

 Bougainville (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)

  • Proposed state: Bougainville[12]
    • Political groups: Triune Government of Bougainville

Solomon Islands

Malaita Province

United States

 Guam

 Hawaii

(The purpose of these organizations and The Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement is to create Native Hawaiian nations within the State of Hawaii equal to Native American nations, or to obtain complete independence from the USA).

Vanuatu

Espiritu Santo

See also

References

  1. Sarah Elks (15 October 2011). For Mabo's sake, let my island home go: Torres Strait elder George Mye. The Australian. News Limited. Retrieved on 25 April 2012.
  2. Larine Statham (17 October 2011). Progress for Torres Strait independence. Courier Mail. Queensland Newspapers. Retrieved on 25 April 2012.
  3. (5 August 2009). MP supports Torres Strait independence. news.com.au. News Limited. Retrieved on 25 April 2012.
  4. "Native Village News". Nativevillage.org.
  5. "easterisland - www". Hectortobar.com. 2004-01-28. Archived from the original on 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
  6. "The Republic of Hau Pakumoto?". GeoCurrents. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  7. "Chuuk Independence…From What, For What?".
  8. "Free Papua Movement (OPM)".
  9. "Banaba - Our Homeland". Abara Banaba. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
  10. (PDF) http://www.sovereigncookislands.info/img/dummies/Mr%20Joe%20Legg%2003.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. "Anis shares vision for autonomy for New Ireland". The National. September 26, 2017.
  12. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2014-05-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. "Solomons province pushes for independence in 'China switch' fallout". Reuters. 2020-09-02. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
  14. Gilbert, Haidee Eugenio. "'Right to self-determination': Guam appeals political status case to US Supreme Court". Pacific Daily News.
  15. Leon-Guerrero, Ken. "Letter: Guam just isn't ready for self-determination". Pacific Daily News.
  16. "UNPO: Guam Prepares for Largest March for Self-Determination on September 2nd 2019". unpo.org.
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