Secession in Australia
This article relates to historical and current and separatist movements within Australia. Separatism includes autonomism and secessionism.
List of movements
Western Australia
Various attempts for secession have occurred in Western Australia, including the 1933 Western Australian secession referendum, and a number of more recent movements have continued proposing and pushing for independence, including the Western Australia Secessionist Movement [1]
Murrawarri Republic
Murrawarri Republic is a micronation in Australia created by an ethnic/racial Indigenous group that has been pushing for independence of Indigenous Australians.[2]
Indigenous Australians
Various proposals have been created to grant Indigenous Australians their own ethnostate, and have also proposed additional autonomous for aboriginal groups that hold native title land over various areas of Australia. The Aboriginal Tent Embassy has demanded that the government give Aboriginals control of the Northern Territory as a state, mining rights to all aboriginal reserve lands and settlements, compensation money for lands not returnable to take the form of a down-payment of A$6 Billion and an annual percentage of the gross national income.
Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island is a proposed ethnic state in the Norfolk Islands, an external territory of Australia, made up primarily of Norfolk Islanders have proposed that Norfolk become an independent state.
Tasmania
Tasmania, historically an independent colony which joined the Commonwealth of Australia which has had various support groups that have proposed secesionism in Tasmania, with Labor Premier Doug Lowe and Liberal Premier Robin Gray seriously considered secession.[3] In the 1990s the First Party of Tasmania was formed, which aimed for Tasmanian secession.
References
- "Western Australia Secessionist Movement".
- Neubauer, Ian Lloyd (30 May 2013). "Australia's Aborigines Launch a Bold Legal Push for Independence". Time magazine. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
- Watson., Reg. A. (September 2013). "The case for complete independence for Tasmania". Archived from the original on 29 August 2013. Retrieved 28 February 2020.