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

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

* Tasmanian Tigers, representing Tasmania

* Mark Ridgway-Former Tasmanian Tigers cricket player

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.

It is best known as the home ground for the state cricket team, the Tasmanian Tigers, and as a venue for international Test matches since 1989 and one-day matches since 1988.

In 2007, the venue saw the Tasmanian Tigers win the state's first Pura Cup, and in 2008 the ground hosted its first Ford Ranger Cup final, also won by Tasmania.

The Tasmanian cricket team, nicknamed the Tigers, represents the Australian state of Tasmania in cricket tournaments.

The Tasmanian Tigers are administered and selected by the Tasmanian Cricket Association ( TCA ) which was founded in 1906.

The Tasmanian Tigers are currently sponsored by PKF.

* David Anthony Smith ( Australian cricketer ) ( born 1957 ), Australian cricketer who played for the Tasmanian Tigers

Their most recent title, a victory over the Tasmanian Tigers in 2011 – 12 saw the Bulls win by 7 wickets in one of the most closely contested finals of recent times.

He became the highest run-scorer for Western Australia in 4-day matches, after passing Tom Moody's old record of 8853 runs on 5 December 2007 against the Tasmanian Tigers at Bellerive Oval.

After taking five first class wickets for the Warriors at a bowling average of 57 in the first three matches of the 2005 – 06 season, he was dropped for the fourth game of the season against the Tasmanian Tigers, and he reacted by storming out of the training session and withdrawing himself for the team to play the Tigers in an ING Cup one-day match.

In 2009, Cowan joined the Tasmanian Tigers where a successful season saw him score 225 vs South Australia in his first game at home.

Ty thinks that the other Tasmanian Tigers are dead during his time with the Bilbies.

* George Bailey – Tasmanian Tigers, Chennai Super Kings, Prime Minister's XI cricketer, Captain of Tasmanian Tigers Pura Cup and Ford Ranger Cup teams.

* 1999: Tasmanian cricketer David Boon announced his retirement from Sheffield Shield cricket

The station promotes extensive coverage of Tasmanian sports in its news coverage including cricket, athletics, netball and basketball.

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.

Tasmania play their limited overs cricket in a predominantly green uniform, with red and gold as their secondary colours, and have a Tasmanian Tiger as their team logo.

The decision was a wise one, as it saw test cricket introduced to the state for the first time, and coincided with an improvement in results for the Tasmanian side.

The Tasmanian cricket team naturally chose to adopt the Tasmanian Tiger as its animal representation, and changed the cap badge once again.

* Bertie Brownlow ( 1920 – 2004 ), Tasmanian cricket player, who played first class cricket for Tasmania eight times between the 1952-53 season until the 1956-57 season.

He continued to make runs in Tasmanian club cricket right through middle age.

Following his retirement from big cricket, Darling returned to his Tasmanian sheep station, where he was involved in a range of agricultural activities.

He later stood as an umpire in Tasmanian cricket.

However, a bid for an Tasmanian AFL team is a popular topic among football fans.

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

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

** The Tasmanian Devil, a ravenous and crazed marsupial who plays on the Looney Tunes ' team.

Lynch also played fullback in the 1990 Tasmanian State of Origin team, the first Tasmanian team to defeat Victoria in 30 years.

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

He then undertook a tour to England with the Young Australians ; a team that included fellow Tasmanian Shaun Young.

Englishman Jack Simmons was coaching in Launceston at the time and was also captain of the Tasmanian team.

For nearly eighty years the Tasmanian side played an average of only two or three first-class matches per year, usually against one of the mainland Australian teams, or warm-up matches against a touring international test team.

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.

In 2008, Whannell took off his " writing hat " to perform alongside Nathan Phillips in Dying Breed, a low-budget Australian horror film about a team of zoologists exploring the Tasmanian wilderness to locate a creature thought extinct, the thylacine, aka Tasmanian tiger.

In March 2008, a Tasmanian Football Taskforce was formed by a group of Tasmanian businessmen to investigate the formation of an A-League team.

Like the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the AISOI uses the Federation Concert Hall as its performing base.

The spotted hyena is renowned for its strong bite proportional to its size, but a number of other animals ( including the Tasmanian devil ) are proportionately stronger .< ref >

The platypus uses its tail for storage of fat reserves ( an adaptation also found in animals such as the Tasmanian devil and fat-tailed sheep ).

Believing it to be a type of opossum, naturalist George Harris wrote the first published description of the Tasmanian devil in 1807, naming it Didelphis ursina, due to its bearlike characteristics such as the round ear.

* Image of Pseudosagitta gazellae with a krill in its gut from the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute

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.

It became a national issue for the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, led by its director at the time, Bob Brown.

It is one of 19 Tasmanian National Parks, and in 1989 it was included in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, in recognition of its natural and cultural values.

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.

The Green party politician Bob Brown ( who was arrested by the Tasmanian state police for a conscientious act of civil disobedience during the Franklin Dam protest ) expresses world conscience in these terms: " the universe, through us, is evolving towards experiencing, understanding and making choices about its future '; one example of policy outcomes from such thinking being a global tax ( see Tobin tax ) to alleviate global poverty and protect the biosphere, amounting to 1 / 10 of 1 % placed on the worldwide speculative currency market.

Robert McKimson based the character on the real-life Tasmanian Devil, or more specifically its carnivorous nature and voracious appetite.

Although the bipedal Tasmanian Devil's appearance does not resemble its marsupial inspiration, it contains multilayered references to other " devils ": he has horn-shaped fur on his head ( similar to the Devil's appearance ) and whirls about like a dust devil ( similar in appearance to a tornado ) which sounds like several motors whirring in unison.

Benjamin Madley wrote: " Despite over 170 years of debate over who or what was responsible for this near-extinction, no consensus exists on its origins, process, or whether or not it was genocide " however, using the " U. N. definition, sufficient evidence exists to designate the Tasmanian catastrophe genocide.

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.

Tasmania Zoo, which is known for its wildlife conservation work, including a breeding program for Tasmanian Devils, is located near the city.

While the region is best known for its convict history it is now the key area in the battle to save the Tasmanian Devil from extinction from a new type of contagious cancer called Devil facial tumour disease ( DFTD ).

In 2004 Elders moved to increase its Tasmanian presence with the launch of Elders Webster.

Southern Cross Tasmania loses its Tasmanian Tiger logo to a unified corporate Southern Cross logo.

In April 1983 the Federal Government tasked an RF-111 and later a Mirage jet, from the Royal Australian Air Force, to perform a reconnaissance mission over the dam as part of its case that the Tasmanian Government was not complying with Federal legislation to stop work.

In 1988, he joined the Australian Medical Association, and in 1990 became the Tasmanian State president of the organisation, taking a reformist approach to the role, and assisted the State branch in growing its membership.