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This is a list of currently active separatist movements in Oceania. Separatism includes autonomism and secessionism.
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What is and is not considered an autonomist or secessionist movement is sometimes contentious. Entries on this list must meet three criteria:
- They are active movements with active members.
- They are seeking greater autonomy or self-determination for a geographic region (as opposed to personal autonomy).
- 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).
- 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)
- Advocacy groups: Aboriginal Tent Embassy,
- Proposed: Norfolk Island as an autonomous region of Australia or free association with New Zealand[9]
- Advocacy groups: Norfolk Island Party[10]
- Proposed state or autonomous area: Western Australia
- Political party: WAxit Party,[11] Western Australia Party
- Proposed: Statehood for Northern Territory within Australia
- Political party: Country Liberal Party
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- 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
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- Ethnic groups: Kanaks, Caldoche
- Proposed state:
New Caledonia or Kanaky
- 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
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- 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]
- Proposed state or autonomous area:
- ethnic group: Cook Islanders
- proposed state:
Cook Islands
- proposed state:
- ethnic group: Tokelauans
- proposed: Independence or free association with
New Zealand
- proposed: Independence or free association with
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
- Proposed State: Faichuk
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- 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]
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- Ethnic group: Ni-Vanuatu
- Proposed autonomous area:
Vemerana
- Political party: Nagriamel
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