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.

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.

The only notable person known to have both been born and died on February 29 was Sir James Wilson ( 1812 – 1880 ), Premier of Tasmania.

Despite Australian rules football's huge popularity in the state of Tasmania, the state does not have a team in the Australian Football League.

Majority verdicts of 10: 2 have been allowed in Tasmania since 1936 for all cases except murder and treason if a unanimous decision has not been made within two hours.

People appear to have arrived by sea during a period of glaciation, when New Guinea and Tasmania were joined to the continent.

An instructive example of this is the population of Superb Lyrebirds in Tasmania, which have retained the calls of species not native to Tasmania in their repertoire, but have also added some local Tasmanian endemic bird noises.

He put Foveaux's name forward to succeed Collins as Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania because he could think of no one more fitting, and considered that he could not have acted otherwise with regard to Bligh.

James Squire is considered to have founded Australia's first commercial brewery in 1798 and the Cascade Brewery in Hobart, Tasmania, has been operating since the early 19th century.

Archaeological sites in Tasmania and on the Bass Strait Islands have been dated to between 20, 000 – 35, 000 years ago, when sea levels were 130 metres below present level allowing Aboriginal people to move across the region of southern Victoria and on to the land bridge of the Bassian plain to Tasmania by at least 35, 000 years ago.

16 living trees in Tasmania have been reliably measured in excess of.

James Squires is considered to have founded Australia's first commercial brewery in 1798 and the Cascade Brewery in Hobart, Tasmania has been operating since the early 19th century.

Guisborough have also had professionals such as Murray Goodwin, ( Sussex and former Zimbabwe international ) Desmond Haynes and Phil Simmons ( both West Indian internationals ), Imran Jan ( Trinidad and Tobago ), Sean Clingeleffer ( Tasmania ) and Greg Todd ( Otago ).

Yet there are still many people in Tasmania who claim to have known Oberon as a child.

In general, evidence suggests the range and population of the Australian Magpie has increased with land-clearing, although local declines in Queensland due to a 1902 drought, and in Tasmania in the 1930s have been noted ; the cause for the latter is unclear but rabbit baiting, pine tree removal, and spread of the Masked Lapwing ( Vanellus miles ) have been implicated.

They have been introduced to New Zealand and the Australian state of Tasmania.

Adults are avian apex predators and have no natural predators but must defend their eggs and nestlings against nest predators such as corvids or currawongs and in Tasmania there is often conflict with the white breasted sea eagle over nest sites.

It is a common and very widespread bird both in urban and rural areas, occupying all parts of Australia except for Tasmania and some of the inland desert in the far north-west of Western Australia, and appears to have adapted well to the presence of humans.

Reid based his description on a specimen that he erroneously stated to have come from Van Diemen's Land ( now Tasmania ), where the species has not occurred in historical times.

* December 30 / 31 – The New Year's Eve Falls Festival in Australia, traditionally held in Lorne, Victoria, holds events in both Lorne and Marion Bay, Tasmania at the same time.

Victoria had played Tasmania as early as 1851 but the Victorians had included two professionals in the 1853 team upsetting the Tasmanians and causing a cooling of relations between the two colonies.

* 10 & 12 November — South Australia v. Tasmania at Adelaide Oval is the earliest first-class match played by South Australia who win by an innings and 13 runs, their team including George Giffen.

Not long beforehand, Tasmania played Victoria in Australia's first first-class cricket match at the NTCA Ground in 1851.

The first first-class cricket match played in Australia was at the Northern Tasmania Cricket Association Ground between the Melbourne Cricket Club and the Launceston Cricket Club in 1851.

Association football ( commonly known in Launceston as " soccer ") is also played and watched in Launceston Park — the only place in Tasmania to have hosted national league soccer matches.

The club has never played in a drawn match, despite a controversial Round 5 match against St Kilda at Aurora Stadium in Launceston, Tasmania in 2006, which initially ended in a draw.

Adam Goodes broke the Sydney games record when he played his 304th AFL game for the Sydney Swans in its Round 5, 2012 victory over at Aurora Stadium in Launceston, Tasmania.

* 11 & 12 February — Tasmania v Victoria at Launceston Racecourse is the inaugural first-class match played in Australia.

When Tasmania played Western Australia at Bellerive Oval on 4 November 1994, Ponting scored 211.

In the second and final first-class match Ponting played for Tasmania in the season, he scored a more sedate 187 against New South Wales in Hobart, assuring him a place in the Test side, despite Damien Martyn ( who replaced Ponting in the side when injured ) scoring two centuries for Western Australia.

In November 2006, Eskimo Joe played at the CMJ Music Festival in New York City, returning to Australia for Southbound in Western Australia and the Falls Festival in Victoria and Tasmania.

A right-handed batsman and a very occasional off-spin bowler, he played First-class cricket for both his home state Tasmania and English county side Durham.

He played the last of his 139 first-class games for Tasmania in the 1998-99 season, in which he scored 9, 077 runs at 41. 44 average with 22 centuries.

The first Test match in Tasmania was played at Bellerive from the 16th-20 December 1989, between Australia and Sri Lanka.

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

A former sportsman, Wilkinson played 15 games with South Melbourne in the VFL from 1970 to 1972, as well as first-class cricket for Tasmania from 1973 to 1975.

Between May 6 and May 23, 2009 it played in Tasmania at the Earl Arts Centre in Launceston, and the Theatre Royal, Hobart Backspace, produced by the Tasmanian Theatre Company, and featuring Robert Jarman.

Davies ' son John played first-class cricket for Tasmania and was thrice Mayor of Hobart.

He is known to have played 378 senior matches ( including 13 interstate matches for Victoria and 5 for Tasmania ).

The winners were Illzilla from Victoria who played at the Lorne event, and Red Rival from Tasmania who played at the Marion Bay event.

During his first-class cricket career, Holding played for Jamaica, Canterbury, Derbyshire, Lancashire and Tasmania.

From 1958 to 1960, he played for Norwood, in spite of a serious knee injury sustained in a car accident in Tasmania in 1959.

In that same year the MCC played its first match against the Victorian Military but the first official interstate game was contested between Victoria and Tasmania in 1851 in Launceston.