The Tasmania State Emergency Service provides a 
volunteer response capability for severe storms and floods, 
road crash rescue, search and rescue/recovery and a range of other 
general rescue and community support roles.
In addition the SES provides whole of government 
advice and executive support to the State Disaster Committee 
and Region Disaster Planning Groups.  
It also takes the lead with much of the State's emergency 
management planning and emergency risk management 
work\footnote{http://www.ses.tas.gov.au}. 
Such work involves understanding the relative risk
of a range of natural disasters so that resources can be directed to appropriate areas
and corresponding evacuation plans put in place.  

The key role of the Risk Research Group at Geoscience Australian 
is to develop knowledge on the risk from natural and 
human-caused hazards for input to policy and operational decision making on 
the mitigation of risk to Australian communities. The Group achieves 
this through the development of computational methods, models and decision 
support tools that assess the hazard, vulnerability and risk posed by hazard
events. To develop an understanding of the tsunami risk, GA has developed
decision support tools, consisting of inundation
maps overlaid on aerial photography of the region 
detailing critical infrastructure as well as damage modelling estimates. 

This report supports the Tasmania State Government's Natural Disaster
Mitigation Programme project on understanding tsunami risk to Tasmania. 
In particular,
the work presented will support paloetsunami investigations to understand
the history of tsunami impact to Tasmania. This support provides a tsunami
inundation model based on a plausible event occurring on the Puysegur Trench
(see Section \ref{sec:methodology}). 

The modelling technique to simulate the 
impact ashore is discussed in Section \ref{sec:methodology} and data inputs
discussed in Section \ref{sec:data}. 
The inundation results are presented and discussed in Section \ref{sec:results}.
A summary of the results detailing issues
regarding underlying data and further model development, are discussed 
in Section \ref{sec:summary}.

