States often said to exhibit crony capitalism include the People's Republic of China ; India, especially up to the early 1990s when manufacturing was strictly controlled by the government ( the " Licence Raj "); Indonesia ; Argentina ; Brazil ; United Kingdom ; Malaysia ; Israel ; Russia ; the United States ; Tasmania ; and most other ex-Eastern Bloc states.

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.

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.

Australia is home to the world's two largest freshwater crayfish – the Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish Astacopsis gouldi, which can achieve a mass of up to and is found in the rivers of northern Tasmania, and the Murray crayfish Euastacus armatus, which can reach and is found in much of the southern Murray-Darling basin.

In Tasmania, of the 10, 000 hectares of tall-eucalypt forest logged between 1996 an 2006, E. regnans made up more than 1, 100 hectares.

In Australia, they are restricted to the area on the seaward side of the Great Dividing Range, from about Mount Gambier in the south-eastern corner of South Australia, through Victoria, Tasmania, the Bass Strait islands and up the eastern seaboard to the Richmond River in northern New South Wales.

Specimens can be found in late autumn and winter, reaching 7 cm in diameter and weighing up to 100 g. Production is almost exclusively European, with France accounting for 45 %, Spain 35 %, Italy 20 %, and small amounts from Slovenia, Croatia and the Australian states of Tasmania and Western Australia ( see below ).

* In 2011, on December 14, Miranda Gibson climbed up a 60m old-growth Eucalyptus delegatensis tree, in the heart of Tasmania ’ s southern virgin rainforest.

His belief that a strait separated the mainland from Van Diemen's Land ( now Tasmania ) was backed up by his astute observation of the rapid tide and the long south-western swell at Wilsons Promontory.

The first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ( SPCA ), based on the British Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ( RSPCA ), was set up in Victoria in 1871, followed by other SPCAs in Tasmania in 1872, New South Wales in 1873, South Australia in 1875, Queensland in 1883, and Western Australia in 1892, with the other territories following much later.

The Australian Aboriginal languages comprise up to twenty-seven language families and isolates native to the Australian Aborigines of Australia and a few nearby islands, but by convention excluding the languages of Tasmania and the eastern Torres Strait Islanders.

The rock cod ( Lotella rhacina ) is a temperate fish found off the coasts of southeastern Australia, Tasmania, the Great Australian Bight and northwards up the south western Australia coasts.

Murphy was born in Melbourne, and grew up in Tasmania, where he took dance classes with Kenneth Gillespie in Launceston.

It was to be looped up on one side — Victoria and Tasmania on the right and the other colonies ( later states ) on the left.

He took his ship, the Mercury, up the eastern coast of Tasmania.

* 1833: Robert Massie arrives in Tasmania takes up position as Engineer with Van Diemens Land Co.

Sculthorpe was born and grew up in Launceston, Tasmania.

King Island is one of the islands that make up the state of Tasmania, Australia.

For the ten weeks leading up to the Burnie Ten, Mark Connelly trains a group of people in a program sponsored by Southern Cross Tasmania.

Nelson then relocated to Hobart, Tasmania, taking up practice as a medical practitioner from 1985 until 1995.

Tasmania, Western Australia and South Australia followed suit with the narrow gauge to reduce costs, though South Australia ended up with an inefficient two-gauge system which negated some of the supposed cost savings of the narrow gauge.

It is on the Tasman Highway which continues up the east coast of Tasmania.

Manne, who called the book ‘ one of the most implausible, ignorant and pitiless books about Australian history written for many years ’, himself summed up the case against Windschuttle, noting that Windschuttle's evidence for Aboriginal deaths is derived from a scholar, Plomley, who denied that any estimate for them could be made from the documentary record ; that a scrupulous conservative scholar, H. A. Willis, using exactly the same sources as Windschuttle, came up with a figure of 188 violent deaths, and another 145 rumoured deaths ; that Windschuttle's method excludes deaths of aborigines who were wounded, and later died ; that all surviving Aborigines transported by Robinson to Flinders ' Island bore marks of violence and gunshot wounds ' perpetrated on them by depraved whites '; that Windschuttle cannot deny that between 1803 and 1834 almost all Tasmanian Aborigines died, and the only evidence for disease as a factor before 1829 rests on a single conversation recorded by James Bonwick, and that Aboriginal women who lived with sealers did not, however, die off from contact with bearers of foreign disease ; that Windschuttle likened Aboriginal attacks on British settlers to ‘ modern-day junkies raiding service stations for money ’, whereas both colonial records and modern historians speak of them as highly ' patriotic ', attached to their lands, and engaged in a veritable war to defend it from settlement ; that by Windschuttle's own figures, the violent death rate of Aborigines in Tasmania in the 1820s must have been 360 times the murder rate in contemporary New York ; that Windschuttle shows scarce familiarity with period books, citing only 3 of the 30 books published on Van Diemen's land for the period 1803-1834, and with one of them confuses the date of the first visit by the French with the publication date of the volume that recounted their expedition ; that it is nonsensical to argue that a people who had wandered over an island and survived for 34, 000 years had no attachment to their land ; that Windschuttle finds no native words in 19th century wordlists for ' land ' to attest to such an attachment, when modern wordlists show 23 entries under ' country '.

At points in its lower reaches the river is nearly three kilometres wide, and as such is the widest river in Tasmania.

Australia has three architectural listings on UNESCO's World Heritage list: Australian Convict Sites ( comprising a collection of separate sites around Australia, including Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, Port Arthur in Tasmania, and Fremantle Prison in Western Australia ); the Sydney Opera House ; and the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.

In its present stronghold — the state of Tasmania — the Forest Raven is one of only three native birds that have no legal protection outside national parks and other reserves.

The governor's proclamation here were three official flags, they being the Governor's flag, the Tasmania Government vessel flag, and a Tasmania merchant flag.

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 ).

But today, the Tasmanian Bettong lives only in the eastern half of Tasmania, and the Northern Bettong lives only in three isolated populations in northern Queensland.

From 1840 to 1842, based in Launceston, Tasmania ( then known as Van Diemen's Land ), Strzelecki explored nearly every part of the island, usually on foot with three men and two pack horses.

Of the 21 Senate presidents since 1901, 13 have come from the least populous states ( Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania ) or the Australian Capital Territory, and only eight have come from the three most populous states ( New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland ).

There are three major regional styles: the geometric style found in Central Australia, Tasmania, the Kimberley and Victoria known for its concentric circles, arcs and dots ; the simple figurative style found in Queensland and the complex figurative style found in Arnhem Land which includes X-Ray art.

During this time the 3rd Division was re-raised and based around a nucleus of three infantry brigades — the 4th, 6th and 9th Brigades — it was once again based in central Victoria, although subunits were also based in South Australia and Tasmania.

He then travelled to Tasmania to obtain his law degree from the University of Tasmania. He and his wife Amina, had three children, daughter Shahnaaz and sons Faiyaz and Faizal and six grandchildren, Aleisha, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Zane, Akif and Farhaan who now reside in Australia, Canada and Fiji.

* 1998: Legislation passed to separate Hydro-Electric Commission into three bodies: Aurora Energy, Transend Networks and Hydro Tasmania.

Allardyce then became governor of Tasmania, but retired after only two years — taking the last three months as leave — as a result of his failure to obtain an increase in his salary of £ 2750.

In Tasmania until and including 2012, the school year is split into three terms, the first one being the longest and including an extended Easter holiday.

Tasmania played in the very first first-class cricket match in Australia against Victoria in 1851, which they won by three wickets.

The membership of the 14 man board is New South Wales ( three Directors ), Queensland ( two Directors ), South Australia ( three Directors ), Tasmania ( one Director ), Victoria ( three Directors ), and Western Australia ( two Directors ).

This resulted in the division of the formerly government owned department into three companies — Hydro Tasmania which generates the power, Transend Networks which transmits it across the state, and Aurora Energy, the retail arm, which sells and distributes it to customers.

This resulted in the division of the government business enterprise into three new state-owned companies: Hydro Tasmania which generates the power ; Transend Networks which transmits it across the state ; and Aurora Energy, which distributes and sells the electricity to customers.

This resulted in the division of the formerly government owned department into three companies-Hydro Tasmania which generates the power, Transend Networks which transmits it across the state, and Aurora Energy, the distribution and retail arm, which sells and distributes it to customers.

After three months in the Victorian goldfields, they came to Tasmania.