Timeline of Anarchism in Oceania

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This is a timeline of various political, legal, military, social, economic and environmental events that have occurred in Oceania (a region encompassing the states of Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Micronesia, Tonga, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau, Tuvalu, Nauru) that are relevant to libertarian socialism.

1900s

1943: The Maasina Ruru movement for indigenous and workers rights on the Solomon Islands begins.
1943: The Battle of Manners Street occurs in Wellington, New Zealand between white US soldiers and Maori NZ soldiers over access to military social centers.
1945: Dockworkers across Australia refuse to serve Dutch ships as a gesture of solidarity to the Indonesian Revolution.
1947: Villagers with the Maasina Ruru begin to declare villages around the Solomon Islands autonomous from the British Empire and refuse to pay taxes or work on plantations or in factories.
1956: Dockworkers in Fremantle, Western Australia, begin a strike in protest of a lack of wage increases.
1964: The Mount Isa Mines Strike occurs over pay disputes, but soon sees a complex struggle evolve for control of the union either by the IWW, communists, liberals or corporation.
1971: The Melbourne University Resistance Commune occurs, as students occupy buildings in Melbourne University for two days to protest Australia's policy of conscription and support for the US-led war in Vietnam.
1972: Construction workers take over the unfinished Sydney Opera House in Australia and run it as a self-managed workplace in protest of the unjust firing of a fellow worker. Not only does this improve productivity, but it also results in large gains for the working class across Australia.
1972: Mineworkers take over the Clutha Development Mine in Australia and run it as a self-managed workplace to prevent closure of the mine.
1974: Construction workers take over the unfinished Wyong Plaza in Australia and run it as a self-managed workplace in protest of the unjust firing of a fellow worker.
1975: The Coal Cliff Work-In, inspired by other workplace takeovers throughout the 1970s, occurs in Australia.
1978: Factory workers at a Sanyo Television Factory in Wodonga, Australia take over their workplace at run it as a self-managed site in protest of the factories closure.
1982: The blockade during the Franklin River Campaign begins to stop the construction of environmentally destructive dam along the Gordon River in Tasmania, Australia.
1986: The Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation is founded in Melbourne, Australia.
1990: Tramworkers' in Melbourne, Australia take over the trams and depots, placing them under workers' control in protest of efforts to privatise the tram network.

2000s

2011: The Occupy Movement spreads to Melbourne and Sydney in Australia and Auckland, New Zealand.
2015: The Matagarup Refugee Camp is formed in Heirisson Island, Perth, Australia to fight back against discrimination of Aboriginal Australians.
2018: The Student Climate Strike spreads to major and regional cities across Australia and New Zealand.

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