...... a dance culture, a desire to dress in black, make little green Tiki things, have face tattoos and do Johnny Cash "Man in Black" impersonations.
"That's a good idea" said whoever was the Premier of Tasmania at the time (that nobody ever really knows their name) "So let's copy them".
But it failed as the black clothes made Tasmanians depressed, so they all needed to visit their Phsych Councilor, the Haka made them tired, plus it all felt a bit threatening and anti-Tasmanian.
So, the Tasmanian population went back to longing to have an AFL team of their very own, and just hanging off the bottom of OZ, like a dag on a sheep's ........