Province of Bumbunga

Province of Bumbunga Micronation
Flag Coat of Arms
Anthem: God Save the Queen
Official languages	English
Organizational structure	Autonomous British colony
• Governor-general	Alex Brackstone
Establishment
• Declared	29 March 1976
Area claimed
• Total	0.04 km2 (0.015 sq mi)
Membership	less than five permanent residents
Purported currency	Australian Dollar

The Province of Bumbunga (33°54′54″S 138°13′44″E / 33.915°S 138.229°E / -33.915; 138.229 (Bumbunga Province)Coordinates: 33°54′54″S 138°13′44″E / 33.915°S 138.229°E / -33.915; 138.229 (Bumbunga Province)) was an Australian secessionist micronation located on a farm at Bumbunga near Snowtown and Lochiel, South Australia, from 1976 until approximately 2000. Its founder and only ruler was a British monkey trainer, uranium prospector, and postmaster named Alex Brackstone.

In November 1975 the Australian Labor Party government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed under controversial circumstances by Governor-General John Kerr, the official governmental representative of Queen Elizabeth II. Brackstone, an ardent British monarchist, became alarmed by what he saw as a drift away from the Australian system of constitutional monarchy toward outright republicanism. To ensure that at least a portion of the Australian continent would always remain loyal to the British Crown, he declared his four-hectare property northeast of Adelaide to be the independent Province of Bumbunga on 29 March 1976, and appointed himself its "governor-general".