Racing in Tasmania is governed by the Tasmanian Thoroughbred Racing Council and the principal club is the Tasmanian Turf Club.

In 1826, Van Diemen's Land Company launches North-West pastoral and agricultural development at Circular Head and the Tasmanian Turf Club was established.

Although Tasmanian AFL Bid has been ongoing, the AFL's focus has become gaining marketshare in lucrative and broadcasting rights in two populous Australian states, introducing clubs on the Gold Coast, Queensland ( Gold Coast Football Club ) and in Greater Western Sydney ( Greater Western Sydney Football Club ).

The Queensland Greyhound Racing Authority ( QGRA ), Western Australian Greyhound Racing Authority ( WAGRA ), Tasmanian Greyhound Racing Authority ( TGRA ), Greyhound Racing South Australia ( GRSA ), Northern Territory Racing Authority, and the Canberra Greyhound Racing Club ( CGRC ), all contribute to running and monitoring of greyhound racing in Australia as it continues to grow.

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.

Devonport City Football Club is a football ( soccer ) club which represents Devonport in the Tasmanian Northern Premier League.

The Devonport Athletic Club hosts a leg of the Tasmanian Cycling Christmas Carnival Series each year in December attended by local and international cyclists, other sports at the carnivals include athletics and woodchopping.

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

Other achievements included huge increases in tourist numbers, leading social policies, partnerships between state and local governments, turning Tasmanian Government entities, such as Hydro Tasmania, into profit-generating businesses ( one of the election-winning strategies was to propose this as opposed to selling them ), bringing two AFL clubs to play regular home and away matches in Tasmania ( Hawthorn Football Club and St Kilda Football Club ) and improving the general feeling of confidence in individuals and businesses within the state of Tasmania.

* 1874: Tasmanian Racing Club established

He was president of the Southern Tasmanian Agricultural Society and chairman of committees and president of the Tasmanian Jockey Club.

Previous local programmes produced by TNT-9 include Sports Club ( weekly sports review ), Quiz Quest ( children's game show ), The Saturday night Show ( variety ), Down the Line ( morning talk / local events ), The Saturday Morning Fun Show ( kids ), Tasmanian New Faces ( talent ) and annual coverage of Targa Tasmania and The Launceston Cup.

Rosny Park Public Golf Course is a 9-hole golf course located in the heart of the city, but there are also seven other course located throughout Clarence, including Tasmania's premier club, the Tasmanian Golf Club.

In 1948 The Clarence Football Club, a tenant of the ground, applied to join the Tasmanian Football League, and the ground had to upgrade to TFL standards.

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.

Many good Tasmanian Thoroughbreds and Pacers have been trained at Brighton Racecourse since the early eighties including the 1986 Launceston Cup winner Epigram and Noble Sensation winner of the TRC Tasmanian Breeders Classic ( LR ), Thos Lyons S. ( LR ), TTC Gold Sovereign S. ( LR ), George Adams P. ( LR ); 2d TRC Tattersalls S. ( LR ), TTC Newmarket H. ( LR ), 3d VATC Autumn S. ( G3 ), TTC Tasmanian Gns ( LR ), TRC Thomas Lyons S. ( LR ), Tattersall's S. ( LR ).

Since all people including the most isolated indigenous groups such as the Andamanese or the Tasmanian aboriginals possess language, then it was presumedly present in the ancestral populations in Africa before the human population split into various groups to inhabit the rest of the world.

Moreover, he noted in the preface to his third edition a point that was to become a feature of Tasmanian politics:

The modern Tasmanian devil was named Sarcophilus harrisii (" Harris's meat-lover ") by French naturalist Pierre Boitard in 1841.

The Tasmanian devil's genome was sequenced in 2010 by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Although Tasmanian history is amongst the most contested by modern historians, conflict between colonists and Aborigines was referred to in some contemporary accounts as the Black War.

The Tasmanian Tiger was the largest Dasyuromorphia and the last living specimen of the family Thylacinidae died in captivity in 1936.

In 1909 Lyons was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly.

Two of their sons later became involved in Tasmanian state politics in the Liberal Party: Kevin Lyons was Deputy Premier between 1969 and 1972 and Brendan Lyons served in the ministry of Robin Gray during the 1980s.

His goal was to break the power of property in Tasmanian politics.

The Tasmanian Devil was once common at the park, lbut has seen a significant drop in density due to the Devil facial tumour disease

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.

In 1951 it was proclaimed to a national park, and in 1989 it was included in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.

In 1884 Bernacchi secured a long term lease of the island from the Tasmanian Government and the ' Maria Island Company ' was formed.

In 1933, In the Wake of the Bounty was directed by Charles Chauvel, who cast Tasmanian born Errol Flynn as the leading actor.

The localised Tasmanian rabbit plague was noted, but it would be surprising if there were no escapes from the many warrens and cages that would have been present throughout the area of European settlement in southeastern 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.

The story of her alleged Tasmanian connections was comprehensively debunked after her death.

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.

Owen and Pemberton suggest that the character of the Tasmanian Devil was inspired by Errol Flynn.

In 1997, a newspaper report noted that Warner Brothers had " trademarked the character and registered the name Tasmanian Devil ", and that this trademark " was policed ", including an eight year legal case to allow a Tasmanian company to call a fishing lure the Tasmanian Devil.

After the Tasmanian state election, 2010, the Governor of Tasmania rejected the advice of his Premier to appoint the leader of the opposition as Premier because he felt the advice was tendered in bad faith.

* 1912: First Tasmanian Girl Guide company formed

* 1976: Tasmanian Wilderness Society formed

A newly formed Tasmanian Water Corporation has compulsorily acquired all drinking water supply infrastructure without payment and does not have direct accountability

In 2002 WIN Corporation and Southern Cross Broadcasting formed a joint venture company to broadcast a third commercial station, Tasmanian Digital Television, in a digital-only format.

The Tasmanian Wilderness Society, under activist Bob Brown, which had formed from the anti-Lake Pedder Dam groups, the Tasmanian Conservation Trust and the Australian Conservation Foundation began to mount a public interest campaign concerning the river.

One company formed to experiment in the processing of zinc ores was the Tasmanian Metals Extraction Company ( TME ) who built a large plant next to the track to Williamsford, completed in 1912.

The Tasmanian Devils Football Club formed in 2001 and was admitted into the VFL in its inaugural season the same year.

The Wilderness Society was formed initially as a protest group called The Tasmanian Wilderness Society to campaign against the Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Commission ( HEC )' s plans to build dams in many locations around Tasmania.

In January 2009 it became the Hobart Campus of the Tasmanian Polytechnic and the Tasmanian Academy, formed as part of the Tasmania Tomorrow reforms.

In April 2003, a working group was formed by the Tasmanian Government to respond to the disease.

Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company was a Tasmanian mining company formed on the 29 March 1893, most commonly referred to as Mount Lyell.

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

The first recorded organised match in Tasmania took place between seamen from the Royal Navy and merchant vessels, who formed a team in 1898, and challenged the soldiers from the Tasmanian Military Forces garrison at Anglesea Barracks.