Once, Tasmania's location on the edge of the world was a challenge but in today's overcrowded and increasingly damaged world it is a distinct advantage. This isolation taught our entrepreneurs to be innovative and to focus on specialist industries and ideas in travel, food, wine, energy creation, education, the arts and conservation.
Tasmania is Australia's only island state, and is an easy 60 or 90 minute flight from Melbourne or Sydney. It is a heart-shaped island of lush green valleys, uncrowded towns and villages and unspoiled coastlines. It is a haven for little animals - Tasmanian devils, spotted-tailed quolls, pademelons, potoroos, bettongs, and wallabies - marsupial, or pouched mammals that have remained largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, and are rarely found elsewhere in Australia. Tasmania's climate is mild and its rainfall regular. The Roaring Forty winds that travel across our island bring with them the cleanest air in the world. And its location beyond the 40th parallel has created an island people who are innovative and adventurous: they have learned to harness Tasmania's natural assets - the wind, the rain, the sunlight and the rich soils.
So we invite you to come to the edge of the world and explore our island and meet its residents. It will be an experience you will always remember.
Tasmania offers businesses the opportunity to invest in an island that has clean energy, clean air and resource rich soils. Aquaculture, gourmet food and wine, ship building, mining, information and communications technology, tourism, energy and biotechnology.
Because of low cost of living and high standards of teaching, more and more international students are studying in Tasmania. The University of Tasmania has an expertise in maritime studies and courses that study the impact of primary industries on the environment.
Tasmania. The very name has inspired artists and writers from John Glover to Charles Darwin and Mark Twain. Today, our protected location and easy life style inspires local designers and artists and attracts others from all over the world.
Tasmania's isolation from mainland Australia has ensured the survival of many plants and animals that are rare or even extinct elsewhere in the world. Now, the fight is on to save our most famous little marsupial - the Tasmanian devil.
