Around 9 p. m. a team from the Special Operations Group of the Tasmania Police had arrived and were eventually able to assist in removing the policemen from the ditch to safety by using the cover of darkness, riot shields and bulletproof jackets.

In the state of Tasmania, possession of pepper spray by unauthorized persons is illegal, under an amendment of the Police Offences Act 1935, being classified as an, " Offensive weapon ".

Authority to possess and use Oleo-resin Capsicum devices remains with Tasmania Police Officers ( As part of general-issue operational equipment ), and Tasmanian Justice Department ( H. M.

* Tasmania – Police Offences Act 1935, section 21 – ' Prohibited behaviour ' – penalty 12 months.

The subsequently convicted perpetrator murdered 35 people and wounded 21 more before being captured by the Special Operations Group of the Tasmania Police.

Under the Police Offences Act 1935 ( Tasmania ), section 55 ( 3 ), any person may arrest any other person whom they find committing an offence, where they have reasonable grounds to believe that the conduct will create or may involve substantial injury to another person, serious danger of such injury, loss of property or serious injury to property.

* Tasmania Police: Traffic Division

* Tasmania Police

* Tasmania Police

Tasmania Police is the police force of the Australian state of Tasmania.

Tasmania Police comprises five Support Commands which support the geographical districts:

The Tasmania Police Academy is located in the suburb of Rokeby on Hobart's Eastern Shore.

The main road into the Tasmania Police Academy, Phil Fletcher Drive, was named in his honour.

Tasmania Police had the first purpose-built Police Academy in Australia.

Today, the Tasmania Police Academy offers training for Tasmania Police recruits, currently-serving Tasmania Police officers, and is offered as a community resource to various local community groups.

There is some evidence that naturally occurring goitrogens may play a role in the development of goitre, particularly in Tasmania and Australia ( Clements and Wishart, 1956 ).

There is a relatively small addition of flow in the Indian Ocean, with the transport south of Tasmania reaching around 147 Sv, at which point the current is probably the largest on the planet.

This coalition is also found in the states of New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria.

In Tasmania, on 19 August 2008, amendments were introduced in to allow retrial in serious cases, if there is " fresh and compelling " evidence.

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.

Evidence against the hypothesis is the fact that humans appear to have eliminated the megafauna of Tasmania without using fire to modify the environment there.

This is controversial because an age of about 580 million years has been obtained in association with glacial rocks in Tasmania which some scientists tentatively correlate with those just beneath the Ediacaran rocks of the Flinders Ranges.

is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania.

The city is the financial and administrative heart of Tasmania, also serving as the home port for both Australian and French Antarctic operations.

The Taste of Tasmania is a major part of the festival, where locals and visitors can taste fine local and international food and wine.

Hobart is the finish point of the Targa Tasmania rally car event held annually in April since 1991.

Tasmania is not represented by teams in national rugby union, rugby league, netball, soccer, or basketball leagues.

One HD in Tasmania is known as One HD Tasmania.

Hobart is home to the main campus of the University of Tasmania, situated in Sandy Bay.

The only public transportation within the city of Hobart is via a network of Metro Tasmania buses funded by

The koala is not found in Tasmania, the Northern Territory or Western Australia.

In both Victoria and Tasmania, it is the second Monday in March ( though the latter calls it Eight Hours Day ).

* 1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.

The platypus ( Ornithorhynchus anatinus ) is a semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania.

The Premier of Tasmania is the head of the executive government in the Australian state of Tasmania.

The nominated politician is then invited by the Governor of Tasmania to act as their principal adviser.

A modified version of STV, known as the Hare – Clark system, is used in Australia in lower house elections in two states / territories: Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory.

Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia.

Minotaur-The Island will premiere as part of Ten Days on the Island in Tasmania, Australia in 2011.

The park forms part of the South-east Tasmania Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance in the conservation of a range of woodland birds, especially the endangered Swift Parrot and Forty-spotted Pardalote.

Although the AAD maintains a base on Macquarie Island, that island is not a federal territory but is rather part of the Australian state of Tasmania.

There the matter rested for over 100 years, and it was not until 1917 that researchers realised that the " forester kangaroo " of Tasmania was in fact Macropus giganteus, the same eastern grey kangaroo that was, and still is, widespread in the more fertile south-eastern part of the mainland.

Devonport is a city in the northwestern part of Tasmania, Australia, situated at the mouth of the Mersey River.

Today, some thousands of people living in Tasmania and elsewhere can trace part of their ancestry to the Parlevar, since a number of Parlevar women were abducted, most commonly by the sealers living on smaller islands in Bass Strait ; some women were traded or bartered for ; and a number voluntarily associated themselves with European sealers and settlers and bore children.

They are prevalent throughout New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, and scattered sites in the southeastern part of Western Australia.

Superfine wool remains an important part of the rural economy of north-east Tasmania and wool sales in Launceston attract many international buyers.

Radio stations aired around Launceston are: LAFM and Chilli FM – part of the Grant Broadcasters radio network, TOTE Sport Radio – Racing Radio, Triple J – ABC, ABC Northern Tasmania – ( ABC ), ABC NewsRadio – ( ABC ), ABC Classic FM – ( ABC ), Radio National – ( ABC ), City Park Radio – Community Radio, SBS Radio – ( SBS ), Way FM – Christian Radio and 7RPH which is a relay of 864 AM from Hobart.

The mining operation at the original Mount Lyell mine continues, with Copper Mines of Tasmania operating between 1995 and 1999 independently, after which it became part of an Indian company group-and its concentrates are shipped to India for processing.

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.

In 1983, the Australian Commonwealth government used RAAF aircraft to take surveillance photos of a then-controversial part of Tasmania, resulting in the Attorney-General Gareth Evans being memorably nicknamed " Biggles ".

Meanwhile an emergency recruitment drive brought in new staff from the UK and Tasmania ( an obscure part of Australia ), mostly from regional newspapers and on fixed contracts.

Unlike the northern hemisphere, the large tracts of open ocean below 40th parallel south ( interrupted only by Tasmania, New Zealand, and the southern part of South America ) mean that higher windspeeds — the Roaring Forties — can develop.

The Pydairrerme people were a part of the larger Oyster Bay tribe, whose territory covered a large area of the east coast of Tasmania.

The peninsula forms part of the South-east Tasmania Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance in the conservation of a range of woodland birds, especially the endangered Swift Parrot and Forty-spotted Pardalote.

In January 1986, he took part in the five day annual Northern Tasmania junior cricket competition.

Glenorchy is a business district and suburb in the northern part of greater Hobart, capital of the state of Tasmania, Australia.

As part of the joint venture, Southern Cross Broadcasting is responsible for handling playout ( from their Canberra facility ), and transmits this signal via satellite to WIN Television transmission facilities in Tasmania.

The Tasmanian temperate rain forests are part of the Australasia ecozone, which includes Tasmania and Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New Caledonia, and adjacent islands.

Geologically, the group is part of the Australian continent, along with New Guinea, Tanimbar, Tasmania and Timor on the Indo-Australian Plate.

Lieutenant-General Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet KCH PC ( 21 June 1784 – 19 September 1854 ) was Lieutenant Governor of British Honduras ( 1814 – 1822 ), Van Diemen's Land ( now the State of Tasmania, part of Australia ) ( 1823 – 1837 ) and Upper Canada ( 1838 – 1841 ).