Secession in Australia
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.[1]
List of movements
[edit]Western Australia
[edit]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 [2]
Tasmania
[edit]Tasmania, historically an independent colony which joined the Commonwealth of Australia which has had various support groups that have proposed secessionism 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.
Racial
[edit]Indigenous Australians
[edit]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.
Murrawarri Republic
[edit]Murrawarri Republic is a micronation in Australia created by an ethnic/racial Indigenous group that has been pushing for independence of Indigenous Australians.[4][5][6][7]
Euahlayi Peoples Republic
[edit]The Euahlayi Peoples Republic is an Aboriginal micronation that declared independence from Australia in 2013.[8][9]
Republic of Mbarbaram
[edit]The Republic of Mbarbaram is an Aboriginal micronation that declared independence from Australia in 2013.[10]
Wiradjuri Central West Republic
[edit]The Wiradjuri Central West Republic is an Aboriginal micronation that declared independence from Australia in 2014.[11]
Sovereign Yidinji government
[edit]The Sovereign Yidinji government is an Aboriginal micronation that declared independence from Australia in 2014.[12][13][14]
References
[edit]- â Doyle, Don (2010). Secession as an International Phenomenon. University of Georgia Press. ISBNÂ 9-780-8203-3008-2. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- â "Western Australia Secessionist Movement".
- â Watson., Reg. A. (September 2013). "The case for complete independence for Tasmania". Archived from the original on 29 August 2013. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
- â Neubauer, Ian Lloyd (30 May 2013). "Australia's Aborigines Launch a Bold Legal Push for Independence". Time magazine. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
- â Gregoire, Paul (22 April 2017). "Always Independent: An Interview with Murrawarri Republic Chair Fred Hooper". Sydney Criminal Lawyers. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- â "The Murrawarri Republic declaration | Sovereign Union - First Nations Asserting Sovereignty". nationalunitygovernment.org. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- â Geia, Jeremy (12 May 2013). "Murrawarri people take sovereignty campaign to UN". SBS News. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- â "Euahlayi Peoples Republic | Sovereign Union - First Nations Asserting Sovereignty". nationalunitygovernment.org. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- â Jopson, Debra. "Boomerang republic". NITV. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- â Roth, Chris. "Wiradjuri activists raise flag, proclaim newest Aboriginal republic in Australia". AIATSIS. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- â "Wiradjuri Central West Republic | Sovereign Union - First Nations Asserting Sovereignty". nationalunitygovernment.org. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- â "Sovereign Yidindji Government | The Most Advanced Digital Nation on the Planet". Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- â Willis Carli (13 September 2024). "These tribal nation groups are creating their own government structures". NITV. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- â Paul Daley (6 March 2016). "Murrumu: one man's mission to create a sovereign Indigenous country inside Australia". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
