 | This article needs additional citations for verification .(August 2023) |
This is a list of currently active separatist movements in Oceania. Separatism includes autonomism and secessionism.
| | This article needs additional citations for verification .(August 2023) |
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:
Under each region listed is one or more of the following:
Northern Territory as a state along with various other claimed areas by different advocacy groups. 
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
Tahiti or Kingdom of Tahiti 
New Caledonia or Kanaky 
West Papua or unification with 
Papua New Guinea [18] 
South Island, New Munster Province or New Munster Republic 
Autonomous Region of Bougainville
Bougainville 
Guam and 
Northern Mariana Islands [33]
Vemerana 
Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage.
Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity. The process begins once a group proclaims an act of secession. A secession attempt might be violent or peaceful, but the goal is the creation of a new state or entity independent of the group or territory from which it seceded. Threats of secession can be a strategy for achieving more limited goals.
Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the Pacific Islands. As an ethnic/racial term, it is used to describe the original peoples—inhabitants and diasporas—of any of the three major subregions of Oceania or any other island located in the Pacific Ocean.
Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea (PNG), has been inhabited by humans for at least 29,000 years, according to artefacts found in Kilu Cave on Buka Island. The region is named after Bougainville Island, the largest island of the Solomon Islands archipelago, but also contains a number of smaller islands.
Regionalism is a political ideology that seeks to increase the political power, influence and self-determination of the people of one or more subnational regions. It focuses on the "development of a political or social system based on one or more" regions, and/or the national, normative, or economic interests of a specific region, group of regions or another subnational entity, gaining strength from or aiming to strengthen the "consciousness of and loyalty to a distinct region with a homogeneous population", similarly to nationalism. More specifically, "regionalism refers to three distinct elements: movements demanding territorial autonomy within unitary states; the organization of the central state on a regional basis for the delivery of its policies including regional development policies; political decentralization and regional autonomy".
UTC+10:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +10:00. This time is used in:
Chuuk State is one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). It consists of several island groups: Namoneas, Faichuuk, the Hall Islands, Namonuito Atoll, Pattiw, and the Mortlock Islands. Chuuk is by far the FSM's most populous state, with 50,000 inhabitants on 120 square kilometers. Chuuk Lagoon is where most people live. Weno island, in the lagoon, is Chuuk's state capital and the country's biggest city. It may hold a referendum on independence in the near future, although this referendum has been repeatedly postponed.
An independence referendum is a type of referendum in which the residents of a territory decide whether the territory should become an independent sovereign state. An independence referendum that results in a vote for independence does not always ultimately result in independence.
African-American self-determination refers to efforts to secure self-determination for African-Americans and related peoples in North America. It often intersects with the historic Back-to-Africa movement and general Black separatism, but also manifests in present and historic demands for self-determination on North American soil, ranging from autonomy to independence. The freedom to make whatever choices as a free American, and willfulness to do for self are often a key demand for advocates of African-American self-determination.
This article relates to historical and current separatist movements within Australia. Separatism conventionally refers to full political separation, including secessionism; groups simply seeking greater autonomy are not separatist as such.
The separatist movement in the Faichuk Islands is a political movement calling for autonomy and independence for the Faichuk Islands located in the state of Chuuk, in the Federated States of Micronesia, a federal country also made up of the states of Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap.
The Wiradjuri Central West Republic is an unrecognized Aboriginal nation of Wiradjuri people, one of several such micronations that have asserted their autonomy within Australia as part of a separatist movement named the Sovereign Union. Declaring independence on 22 January 2014, at Wellington council chambers, the declaration served to assert the Wiradjuri people's inherent sovereignty, challenging the Australian government's authority and advocating for self-determination. It is the latest of a string of aboriginal declarations of independence on the continent, the others being: the Murrawarri Republic on March 30, 2013, the Euahlayi Peoples Republic on August 3, 2013, and the Republic of Mbarbaram.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)