Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. Tasmania.

1871		Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) 28 Dec. 3/3: [I] saw it was Mrs. Tabitha lecturing her niece, Miss Tassy Tasmania.
1894		Coburg Leader (Vic.) 1 Dec. 2/4: ‘Sports’ has been granted a week’s holiday to go to ‘Tassie’ at Xmas.
1914		Truth (Melbourne) 7 Feb. 6/5: [headline] Turf Twicers in Tassy.
1925		Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 12 Dec. 6s/2: I’ll embark for the East, or for Tassie.
1925		Advocate (Burnie, Tas.) 14 Mar. 11/2: ‘Tassy,’ ‘The Speck’. It seems a pity that most of the world tourists pass it by.
1929		Sun. Times (Perth) 31 Mar. 6s/5: [headline] Tassie’s Troubles.
1931		Sun. Times (Perth) 3 May 10/2: Bravo, Tassie!
1941		A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 16 July [synd. cartoon strip] Where I come from in Tassy we all shave with axes.
1950		Examiner (Launceston, Tas.) 3 Feb. 17/6: The Tasmanian restricted yacht, Tassie Too [...] won the Forsters Cup.
1950		A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 3 Jan. [synd. cartoon] Over in Tassy where I live the mountains are ten times as big.
2000		P. Temple Dead Point (2008) [ebook] Sometimes they come back in a tramp steamer, [...] fucking hang glider, land in Broome, Top End, Tassie.
2009		P. Temple Truth 226: His ex lives in Tassie.

2. (Aus.) an inhabitant of Tasmania, thus Tassylander.

1893		Williamstown Chron. (Vic.) 18 Feb. 2/8: The ‘Tassies’ don’t like it, and I pile it on by saying the Yarra and Derwent ought to be transposed.
1903		‘Dads Wayback’ in Sun. Times (Sydney) 26 Apr. 1/8: ‘He brung in a Bill fer ther Tassies ter pay ther interest on wot they owed’.
1919		Truth (Brisbane) 28 Sept. 2/3: He is a very decent little pipe and tap — a Tassy.
1949		Chron. (Adelaide) 24 Mar. 43/3: For Tasmanians, Van Diemenese, Derveners, Derwent Ducks, Mountain Devils, Tassies and Tassylanders.