Several specimens have been caught in the vicinity of New South Wales and Tasmania and are preserved at the Australian Museum.

He was collecting specimens in northern New South Wales towards the end of that year, and on 22 April 1843 he left Sydney after having travelled through New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, examining the geology along the way.

Mature specimens can also be found in most parts of England, Seattle, Vancouver, and Vancouver Island regions of Canada, around Tokyo in Japan, and Tasmania, Australia.

D ' Entrecasteaux failed to find any trace of the missing expedition, but his ships visited southwest Australia, Tasmania, the North Island of New Zealand, and the East Indies, where Labillardière, Claude Riche, Étienne Pierre Ventenat assisted by gardener Félix Delahaye collected zoological, botanical and geological specimens, and described the customs and languages of the local Indigenous Australians.

The mussel has been present in Auckland harbour since 1980 and specimens have also been reported at Tamar estuary in Tasmania.

The only other regions so blessed are the British Isles, western Europe, eastern China, southern Chile and parts of Japan, New Zealand and Tasmania.

* 1902 – Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.

Drier-than-normal conditions are also in general observed in Queensland, inland Victoria, inland New South Wales, and eastern Tasmania from June to August.

They are legislative and executive powers and functions conferred on the Governor-General, not by Royal authority, but by statutory authority ," a view held also by Andrew Inglis Clark, who assisted Sir Samuel Griffith with drafts of the constitution and later became Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.

Commercial television channels are provided by Southern Cross Tasmania, Tasmanian Digital Television ( TDT ), also providing One HD in high definition only, and WIN Television, also providing the nationwide Go!

Most city wide events such as the Taste of Tasmania and Hobart Summer Festival are funded by the Tasmanian State Government as a joint venture with the Hobart City Council.

In Australia majority verdicts are allowed in South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory, New South Wales and Queensland, while the ACT require unanimous verdicts.

They are reported as seasonally common in the Canadian Arctic, including Baffin Bay between Greenland and Nunavut, and around Tasmania and Macquarie Island.

In Tasmania, there are two government TAFE organisations:

This disappearance is usually blamed on dingoes, which are absent from Tasmania.

Programs are currently being undertaken by the Government of Tasmania to reduce the impact of the disease, including an initiative to build up a group of healthy devils in captivity, isolated from the disease.

While dingoes are seen as the main reason for the disappearance of devils from the mainland, another theory is that the increasing aridity of the mainland caused it, while the population in Tasmania has been largely unaffected as the climate remains cool and moist.

Sparkling wines from Chardonnay are produced in the cool regions of Geelong, Macedon Ranges and Tasmania.

There are two extant species of Tettigarctidae, one in southern Australia, and the other in Tasmania.

In states other than South Australia, apricots are still grown, particularly in Tasmania and western Victoria and southwest New South Wales, but they are less common than in South Australia.

Participating states and territories are: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, Norfolk Island, Christmas Island or the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands.

In the south west the range ecompasses an area between North West Cape, Cape Leeuwin and Eucla ; while in the east it covers are large region bounded by the Atherton Tableland, the Eyre Peninsula and Tasmania, with the Murray Darling Basin supporting very large populations of Black Swans.

Furthermore, 68 % of the higher rainforest species recorded in alpine areas in Tasmania are present in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park.

49 species endemic to Tasmania are found at Freycinet.

Rack railway switches are as varied as rack railway technologies, for optional rack lines such as the Zentralbahn in Switzerland and the West Coast Wilderness Railway in Tasmania it is convenient to only use switches on sections flat enough for adhesion ( for example, on a pass summit ).

Snow sports are enjoyed in the Australian Alps and in Tasmania.

The states of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory are the only states in Australia to essentially deregulate laws on shopping hours.

All retail businesses in the states, regardless of size or product offer are able to stipulate their trading hours to suit their individual customer demand ( although they are required to remain closed on Christmas Day, Good Friday, and ( in Tasmania and NSW only ) on Easter Sunday, except the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, which can remain open on any public holiday ).

It was announced on 31 December 2007 as a policy to be implemented by the Rudd ALP government, and initial tests in Tasmania have produced a 2008 report.

Services to Tasmania and the Northern Territory took longer to start, not until the mid 2000s when the digital satellite pay television service had picked up momentum and was beginning to be used for metropolitan installs and not just rural installs.

Unlike reforms in the United Kingdom, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and soon to be Western Australia, this law does not have a retrospective effect, which is unpopular with some advocates of the reform.

Tasmania was not known to be an island until Matthew Flinders and George Bass circumnavigated it in the Norfolk in 1798-99.

Sugar gliders can be found throughout the northern and eastern parts of mainland Australia, and in Tasmania, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia.

In Australia, sugar gliders can be kept in Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory but not Western Australia, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, or Tasmania.

When Tasmania granted Betfair a license despite these efforts the Western Australian state legislature passed a law that specifically criminalised using betting exchanges from within the state ; however, that law was later ruled to be unconstitutional.

It was found by Governor of Tasmania, Colonel David Collins, who had arrived on the First Fleet, during the search for an escaped convict, Mary Morgan, who was said to be living with the Aborigines to the North of the Hawkesbury River.

Mannalargenna, an Aboriginal leader who organised guerrilla attacks against British soldiers in Tasmania during the period known as the Black War, was a Plangermaireener ( one of the 3 bands ) elder, and in 1835 became the first Aborigine in Tasmania to be given a " Christian " burial.

Observatories were to be established at Toronto, St. Helena, Cape Town, Tasmania and at stations to be determined by the East India Company, while other nations were invited to co-operate.

In New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania first-time offences for possession and use of small amounts of cannabis or cannabis products ( e. g. cannabis oil or resin ) can be dealt with by diversion programs, which aim to divert offenders into education, assessment and treatment programs.

In Tasmania up to three cautions can be issued for possession of up to 50g of cannabis, with a hierarchy of referrals for treatment then intervention for each caution.

In January 2010 Cale was invited to be the first Eminent Art in Residence ( EAR ) at the Mona Foma festival curated by Brian Ritchie held in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

The party was formed in 1992 ; however, its origins can be traced to the early environmental movement in Australia and the formation of the United Tasmania Group ( UTG ), one of the first green parties in the world, which first ran candidates in the 1972 Tasmanian state election.

Wedge-tails are found throughout Australia, including Tasmania, and southern New Guinea in almost all habitats, though they tend to be more common in lightly timbered and open country in southern and eastern Australia.

Decreasing numbers of Tasmanian devils may be beneficial to the Wedge-tailed Eagles in Tasmania, as it could reduce competition for roadkill and devil predation on Wedge-tailed Eagle young.

An annual fee would be paid to Warner Bros in return for the Government of Tasmania being able to use the image of Taz for " marketing purposes ".

He was sent to Van Diemen ’ s Land ( Tasmania ) in October 1831, only to be pardoned five years later, although he never returned home.

Inhabitants of the following islands and regions are not considered to be Pacific Islanders: Russia's Kuril Islands, Alaska's Aleutian Islands, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, and Tasmania, as they are not located within the three regions of Oceania ( Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia ).

They are rare in the deep desert and appear to be only accidental visitors to northern Tasmania and the Torres Strait islands.

In 1889, Launceston was the second town in Tasmania to be declared a city, after state capital Hobart.

It was the second casino to be built in Tasmania and one of the first in Australia.