Although Tasmanian AFL Bid has been ongoing, the AFL's focus has become gaining marketshare in lucrative and broadcasting rights in two populous Australian states, introducing clubs on the Gold Coast, Queensland ( Gold Coast Football Club ) and in Greater Western Sydney ( Greater Western Sydney Football Club ).

Tasmanian State League football features five clubs from Hobart, and other leagues such as Southern Football League and the Old Scholars Football Association are also played each Winter.

The Devonport Football Club is an Australian Rules team competing in the Tasmanian Statewide League.

Devonport City Football Club is a football ( soccer ) club which represents Devonport in the Tasmanian Northern Premier League.

On 30 July 2008, the Tasmanian government announced that it had secured a major sponsor, Mars for a bid to enter the Australian Football League in a deal worth $ 4 million over 3 years and will temporarily change the name of its top-selling chocolate bar in Australia to Believe, to help promote Tasmania's cause.

The city's team is the Burnie Dockers Football Club in the Tasmanian State League.

Other achievements included huge increases in tourist numbers, leading social policies, partnerships between state and local governments, turning Tasmanian Government entities, such as Hydro Tasmania, into profit-generating businesses ( one of the election-winning strategies was to propose this as opposed to selling them ), bringing two AFL clubs to play regular home and away matches in Tasmania ( Hawthorn Football Club and St Kilda Football Club ) and improving the general feeling of confidence in individuals and businesses within the state of Tasmania.

In 1948 The Clarence Football Club, a tenant of the ground, applied to join the Tasmanian Football League, and the ground had to upgrade to TFL standards.

As well as being the home of domestic and international cricket and the Clarence Football Club in the now Tasmanian State League, Bellerive Oval served in 2003 as a home to the Tasmanian Devils in the VFL.

AFL football is very popular in the town and the Scottsdale Football Club had success in the Northern Tasmanian Football Association.

Later, he coached ( non-playing ) New Town to a number of Tasmanian Football League premierships.

During the ' 1990s, Tasmania had shown strong interest in joining the AFL and after rejected bids in 1995 and 1997 the Australian Football League instigated the formation a Tasmanian team for the newly re-constructed Victorian Football League.

The Tasmanian Devils Football Club formed in 2001 and was admitted into the VFL in its inaugural season the same year.

* Full Points Footy profile for Tasmanian Devils Football Club

From 1923, the venue was principally used for Australian rules football by the Northern Tasmanian Football Association, and for occasional inter-state games.

On 21 February 2009 York Park became home to the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame.

In the past, his community involvement has included member of both the Devonport and Launceston Chamber of Commerce ; the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Tasmania ; he has also been a board member of the Tasmanian Football Club in 2002.

Hockey Tasmania has a men's team ( the Tasmanian Tigers ) and a women's team ( the Van Demons ) competing in the Australian Hockey League.

The Devonport Rugby Club is a Rugby Union team competing in the Tasmanian Rugby Union Statewide League.

* Tasmanian State League, the premier Australian rules football competition in Tasmania, a state of Australia

He represents the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket, the Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League, and played in the Indian Premier League with the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2008.

* 1901: Zeehan conference leads to formation of Tasmanian Workers Political League ( forerunner to Labor Party )

* Tasmanian Rugby League

competing in the Tasmanian Rugby Union statewide League.

Cyborg and Red Tornado later travel to the moon alongside Doctor Light, Animal Man, Congorilla, Zauriel, Tasmanian Devil and Bulleteer as part of an emergency group of heroes gathered to assist the Justice League in their battle against Eclipso.

Zauriel is recruited by Congorilla as part of a reserve Justice League consisting of Cyborg, Doctor Light, Red Tornado, Bulleteer, Animal Man, and Tasmanian Devil to help the JLA stop Eclipso.

* State-Wide League, an alternate name for the Tasmanian Football League

* Tim Paine – Australian cricketer and current member of the Tasmanian Tigers

This system is used in the Upper House in India, Australia ( Senate, Tasmanian and Australian Capital Territory Houses of Assembly and the Legislative Councils in New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria ), Ireland, Northern Ireland ( assembly, local government and European elections, but not national ), Malta, local government elections in Scotland and selected ( optional ) local governments in New Zealand.

The Tasmanian devil ( Sarcophilus harrisii ) is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, now found in the wild only on the Australian island state of Tasmania.

The date that the Tasmanian devil became locally extinct from the Australian mainland is unclear ; most evidence suggests they had contracted to three relict populations around 3000 years ago.

The Queensland Greyhound Racing Authority ( QGRA ), Western Australian Greyhound Racing Authority ( WAGRA ), Tasmanian Greyhound Racing Authority ( TGRA ), Greyhound Racing South Australia ( GRSA ), Northern Territory Racing Authority, and the Canberra Greyhound Racing Club ( CGRC ), all contribute to running and monitoring of greyhound racing in Australia as it continues to grow.

Sydney in particular is noted for its harbourside seafood restaurants, including the Doyles chain in Sydney, notably Doyles on the Beach at Watson's Bay ; and Tetsuya's Restaurant owned by chef Tetsuya Wakuda which bases its menu on Australian, Japanese and classic French cuisine, and makes use of Australian ingredients including Tasmanian Ocean Trout.

Among the native Sitka spruce, western hemlock and wildflowers, the garden is a unique experimental outdoor laboratory, featuring a great many exotic species such as South African honeybush, New Zealand and Tasmanian tree ferns, Chinese fig hazel, Australian Grevillia, and Chilean flame and lantern trees.

* Australian National Railways-the formerly federal government owned Trans-Australia Railway, Central-Australia Railway, Country South Australia and Tasmanian Railways operator

The Australian Senate voting paper under the single transferable vote system resembles this example, which shows the candidates for Tasmanian senate representation in the 2004 federal election.

A campaign is being mounted to have included in Slow Food International's Ark of Taste ( nationally nominated threatened produce and food products ) the following Australian foods: Kangaroo Island's Ligurian bee honey, the Queensland-native bunya nut, bull-boar sausage from Victoria and Tasmanian Leatherwood honey.

* Daniel Hitchcock ( Tasmania ), Australian member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council

The order Dasyuromorphia ( meaning " hairy tail ") comprises most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, the Tasmanian devil, and the recently extinct thylacine.

The Aboriginal Tasmanians ( Tasmanian: Parlevar or Palawa ) were the indigenous people of the Australian state of Tasmania, located south of the continent of Australia.

Along with the rest of the state, the city has four free-to-air analogue television stations, including two government funded channels from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( ABC1 ), the Special Broadcasting Service ( SBS ONE ) and two commercial stations ; ( Southern Cross Tasmania & WIN ) These services are also available in digital format as well as eleven digital only stations, one carrying Network Ten programming ( Tasmanian Digital Television ), and nationwide digital-only stations ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24, SBS Two, 7Two, Go !, 7mate ( HD ), GEM HD, One HD ( in high definition only ) and the new " Eleven " channel from Network Ten.

Uluru and the Australian outback are other popular locations, as is Tasmanian wilderness.

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A new Australian Outback area is scheduled to open in early 2013 with improved koala exhibits, a care center with floor-to-ceiling windows for guests to see keepers taking care of the koalas, and later on exhibits for Tasmanian devils and Australian birds.

Brown was elected to the Australian Senate on the Tasmanian Greens ticket, joining with sitting Greens Western Australia senator Dee Margetts to form the first group of Australian Greens senators following the 1996 federal election.