British Newguinea and Guyana not independent

Would it be possible that British Guyana and British Newguinea wouldnt become independent, so that they would still be british oversea regions ? Kinda like French Guyana and New Caledonia are french oversea colonies
If not, why wouldnt it be possible ?
 
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Would it be possible that British Guyana and British Newguinea wouldnt become independent, so that they would still be british oversea regions ? Kinda like French Guyana and New Caledonia are french oversea colonies
If not, why wouldnt it be possible ?
French Guyana and New Caledonia are not colonies.
The first is a departement the second as a special statut that give it large autonomy.
 
yah i got confused sorry, i know they are not colonies.
Would that be possible for British Guyana and British Newguinea that they are Oversea departments of Britain ?
 
yah i got confused sorry, i know they are not colonies.
Would that be possible for British Guyana and British Newguinea that they are Oversea departments of Britain ?

Guayana theoretically yes - as many other carribean islands. But that needs the British politics changed considerably, the French were much more inclined to keep their colonies in some form - whether in a communautée or as departments.

New Guinea was an Australian colony.
 
As said above PNG is most likely to be associated with Australia. Certainly if Britain hadn't been economically wrecked by WW2 then it would have tried to keep close links with many colonies, the Carribbean islands could certainly have remained as "External Territory/Overseas Region" status but it would also require a completely different government structure with full home rule and Britain only retaining responsibility for defence and foreign affairs.

So yes it is possible but you need a series of major PoD's from the 1920's onwards.
 

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Your starting point is too late for PNG unless you go pre-1900. British New Guinea was a colony of Queensland from 1883 onwards, the Australian federal government assuming responsibility for it in 1901 (the commencement of the Australian Commonwealth). It was renamed Papua in 1906. Following its conquest by Australian forces in the First World War, German New Guinea was combined with Papua in 1919.

Had PNG not gained independence in 1975 it would be a colony of Australia. Given that PNG was granted independence at least ten years before it was ready for it, a PNG as a UN trust territory administered by Australia until the late 1980s isn’t particularly unlikely. Beyond 1990 would be very unlikely however; colonialism in any form was well and truly an obsolete concept in Australia by then.
 
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