Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians,it is the least-populated Australian state capital city,and second-smallest if territories are taken into account,before Darwin,Northern Territory. Hobart is located in Tasmania's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent,making it the most southern of Australia's capital cities. Its skyline is dominated by the 1,271-metre (4,170 ft) kunanyi/Mount Wellington,and its harbour forms the second-deepest natural port in the world,with much of the city's waterfront consisting of reclaimed land. The metropolitan area is often referred to as Greater Hobart,to differentiate it from the City of Hobart,one of the five local government areas that cover the city. It has a mild maritime climate.
Tasmania is 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 containing the southernmost point of the country. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania,the 26th-largest island in the world,and the surrounding 1000 islands. It is Australia's least populous state,with 569,825 residents as of December 2021. The state capital and largest city is Hobart,with around 40 percent of the population living in the Greater Hobart area.
The governor of Tasmania is the representative in the Australian state of Tasmania of the Monarch of Australia,currently King Charles III. The incumbent governor is Barbara Baker,who was appointed in June 2021. The official residence of the governor is Government House located at the Queens Domain in Hobart. As the sovereign predominantly lives outside Tasmania,the governor's primary task is to perform the sovereign's constitutional duties on their behalf.
The Tasmanian cricket team,nicknamed the Tigers,represents the Australian state of Tasmania in cricket. They compete annually in the Australian domestic senior men's cricket season,which consists of the first-class Sheffield Shield and the limited overs Matador BBQs One-Day Cup.
Edmund John Chisholm Dwyer-Gray was an Irish-Australian politician,who was the 29th Premier of Tasmania from 11 June to 18 December 1939. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
William Lodewyk Crowther FRCS was a Tasmanian politician,who was Premier of Tasmania from 20 December 1878 to 29 October 1879.
William Edward Felix Hodgman is an Australian diplomat and former politician who has been the High Commissioner of Australia to Singapore since February 2021. He was the 45th Premier of Tasmania and a member for the Division of Franklin in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from the 2002 state election until his resignation in January 2020. He became premier following the 2014 state election,having been Leader of the Opposition since 2006. He was re-elected to a second term in government following victory in the 2018 state election.
David John Bartlett is an Australian former politician in the state of Tasmania,serving as the 43rd Premier of Tasmania from May 2008 until January 2011. He was a Labor Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Denison from 2004 to 2011 when he retired.
Jeremy Page Rockliff is an Australian politician who has been serving as the 47th Premier of Tasmania since April 2022,after the resignation of Peter Gutwein as Premier. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the Division of Braddon since the 2002 election. He was the Deputy Premier of Tasmania from 2014 to 2022 before becoming Premier. With the defeat of New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet and the Coalition government in 2023,Rockliff is the only member of a Coalition party or affiliate party to currently serve as a Premier of a state or Chief Minister of a self-governing territory in Australia.
William Charles Piguenit was an Australian landscape painter.
David Christopher Bushby is an Australian diplomat and former politician who served as a Senator for Tasmania from August 2007 to January 2019,representing the Liberal Party. He was the Chief Government Whip in the Senate for the Abbott,Turnbull and Morrison Governments from 1 July 2014 until he resigned on 21 January 2019. Bushby currently serves as Consul-General of Australia in Chicago since 2019.
Tasmanian Gothic is a genre of Tasmanian literature that merges traditions of Gothic fiction with the history and natural features of Tasmania,an island state south of the main Australian continent. Tasmanian Gothic has inspired works in other artistic media,including theatre and film.
Gatenby is a surname which originated in Gatenby,North Yorkshire,England. Notable people with the surname include:
The Tasmanian AFL bid refers to several Australian rules football teams that have proposed to eventually join the Australian Football League (AFL) and the AFL Women's (AFLW). Proposals have been made on several occasions since the expansion of the Victorian Football League into an Australia-wide competition started in 1987.
The Colony of Tasmania was a British colony that existed on the island of Tasmania from 1856 until 1901,when it federated together with the five other Australian colonies to form the Commonwealth of Australia. The possibility of the colony was established when the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the Australian Constitutions Act in 1850,granting the right of legislative power to each of the six Australian colonies. The Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land drafted a new constitution which they passed in 1854,and it was given royal assent by Queen Victoria in 1855. Later in that year the Privy Council approved the colony changing its name from "Van Diemen's Land" to "Tasmania",and in 1856,the newly elected bicameral parliament of Tasmania sat for the first time,establishing Tasmania as a self-governing colony of the British Empire. Tasmania was often referred to as one of the "most British" colonies of the Empire.
Roy Frederick Fagan was an Australian Labor Party politician,who was Deputy Premier of Tasmania from 1959 to 1969.
Laurence Gatenby was an Australian cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Tasmania between 1913 and 1914. He was killed in action during World War I.
Mount Olympus is a mountain in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania,Australia. It is the 24th highest mountain in Tasmania at 1,472 metres (4,829 ft) above sea level and is situated about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) South-East of Mount Gould and about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Lake St. Clair.
The Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch),commonly known as Tasmanian Labor,is the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party. It has been one of the most successful state Labor parties in Australia in terms of electoral success.
The next Tasmanian state election is scheduled to be held on or before Saturday 28 June 2025 to elect all 25 members plus an extra 10 new seats to the House of Assembly. The Liberal government,currently led by Premier of Tasmania Jeremy Rockliff,will attempt to win a fourth term against the Labor opposition,led by Rebecca White.
