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tas.gov.au. Tasmania from space. Tasmania (/ tæzˈmeɪniə /; palawa kani: lutruwita[14]) is an island state of Australia. [15] It is located 240 kilometres (150 miles) to the south of the Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world ...
This is a list of places in the Australian state of Tasmania by population. ... This page was last edited on 4 November 2024, at 20:44 (UTC).
In Tasmania: • 95% aged 12 and over were fully vaccinated. • 46% aged between 5 and 11 years old had 1 dose of COVID-19 vaccine. • over 38% aged 18 and over had a booster dose [21] On 2 February, there was a single COVID-19 related death, raising the state total to 19. It was 68-year-old man at an aged care facility.
The following notable deaths occurred in 2024. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference.
600–900 dead. The Black War was a period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Tasmanians in Tasmania from the mid-1820s to 1832 that precipitated the near-extermination of the indigenous population. The conflict was fought largely as a guerrilla war by both sides; some 600 to 900 Aboriginal people and more than 200 ...
2024 Tasmanian state election. The 2024 Tasmanian state election was held on 23 March 2024 to elect all 35 members to the House of Assembly. The House of Assembly uses the proportional Hare-Clark system of voting, with the 35 members elected from five seven-member constituencies. The Assembly's size was increased from 25 to 35 seats at this ...
First arriving in Tasmania (then a peninsula of Australia) around 40,000 years ago, [citation needed] the ancestors of the Aboriginal Tasmanians were cut off from the Australian mainland by rising sea levels c. 6000 BC. They were entirely isolated from the outside world for 8,000 years until European contact.
Tasmania, the largest island of Australia, has a landmass of 68,401 km 2 (26,410 sq mi) and is located directly in the pathway of the notorious "Roaring Forties" wind that encircles the globe. To its north, it is separated from mainland Australia by Bass Strait. Tasmania is the only Australian state that is not located on the Australian mainland.