List of active separatist movements in Oceania

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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 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).

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,^[1][2][3] Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia,^[4] Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, Aboriginal Provisional Government, Yuggera Ugarapul Tribal People's,^[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)

 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

 Rapa Nui (Easter Island)^[14][15]

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

Nadroga-Navosa and Ra

• Proposed state: Ra Sovereign Christian State ^{[16][17][18][19][20]}

 French Polynesia^[21]

• Proposed state or autonomous region: Tahiti or Kingdom of Tahiti, Marquesas islands^[22][23]
  • 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^[24]

• 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

Papua

• Ethnic group: Papuans
• Proposed state: West Papua ^[25]
  • 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

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^[26]
  • Pressure group: South Island First^[27]

 Cook Islands^[28][29]

• ethnic group: Cook Islanders
  • proposed state:  Cook Islands

 Tokelau^[30][31]

• ethnic group: Tokelauans
  • proposed: Independence or free association with  New Zealand

Autonomous Region of Bougainville

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

Chuuk

• Proposed state: Chuuk
  • Political party: Chuuk Independence Movement^[32][33]
  • Ethnic Group: Chuukeese

Yap

• Proposed autonomy :Yap^[34]
  • Political party: Yap self determination Movement^{[35][36][37][38]}
  • Ethnic Group: Yapese

Faichuk Islands^[39][40]

• Proposed State: Faichuk

Malaita Province

• Proposed state: Malaita^[41]
  • Political party: Malaita for Democracy^[42]

 Hawaii^[43][44][45]

• 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 US, or complete independence from the US
  • Pressure groups: Nation of Hawaiʻi (organization), Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi
  • Political party: Aloha ʻĀina Party

 Guam and  Northern Mariana Islands^[46]

• Ethnic group: Chamorro people, Filipinos, Non-Natives
  • Proposed: Statehood,^[47] Independence or Independence under free association with the USA
  • Advocacy groups: Chamorro Nation
  • Political party: Commission on Decolonization^{[48][49][50][51]}

Espiritu Santo

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

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