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Tasmania Australia - an island state of Australia. It is located 240 kilometres (150 miles) to the south of the Australian mainland, separated from it by the Bass Strait, with the archipelago ( chain of islands) containing the southernmost point of the country. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, & the surrounding 1000 islands.The state capital & largest city is Hobart.

Hobart , Tasmania is the least-populated Australian state capital city, & 2nd-smallest if territories are taken into account, before Darwin , Northern Territory.

The city, initially known as Hobart Town or Hobarton, was named after Lord Hobart, the British Secretary of State for war & the colonies.

Tasmania was named after Abel Janszoon Tasman a Dutch seafarer & explorer, best known for his voyages of 1642 & 1644 .

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Wild abalone & lobster. Tasmania is well known for its abundant marine life & great fishing, it is also one of the world's premier suppliers of wild abalone & lobster...

Leatherwood honey

Black truffles

Premium fresh fruit & vegetables.

Farmed salmon.

Tasmania deals out more than just world-class whiskys: the region is also famous for its gin and vodkas, and other spirits

Sports

Tasmania JackJumpers a Basketball team

Tasmania Tigers a cricket team

South Hobart Football Club a Australian soccer club

Hobart Hurricanes a T20 cricket Big Bash League.

North-West Tasmania Thunder a Australian basketball team

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Tasmania's main island was inhabited by Aboriginal peoples for up to 40,000 years before British colonization. The island was permanently settled by Europeans in 1803 as a penal settlement of the British Empire.

The Black War was a period of violent conflict between British colonists & Aboriginal Tasmanians in Tasmania from the mid-1820s to 1832. The conflict, fought largely as a guerrilla war by both sides, claimed the lives of 600 to 900 Aboriginal people & more than 200 British colonists.

The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 28 April 1996 at Port Arthur, a tourist town in the Australian state of Tasmania. The perpetrator, Martin Bryant, killed 35 people & wounded 23 others, the worst massacre in modern Australian history. The attack led to fundamental changes in Australia's gun laws.

(Prior to this / before this happened )
After quitting a national gun summit in 1987, 8 years before the massacre & following 2 mass shootings in Melbourne earlier in 1995, Premier of New South Wales Barrie Unsworth said: "it will take a massacre in Tasmania before we get gun reform in Australia", referencing Tasmania's resistance to gun law changes. A redesign of the laws for all states & territories of Australia had been prepared by officers & presented at a meeting of police ministers in Launceston in 1995. It had been rejected by Tasmania.
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