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Time served by man in Asia and part of Australia (8)

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I believe the answer is:

tasmania

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'part of australia' is the definition.
(I know that Tasmania is part of Australia)

'time served by man in asia' is the wordplay.
'time served' becomes 't' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'man' inserted within 'asia' is 'asmania'.
't'+'asmania'='TASMANIA'

'and' is the link.

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(Other definitions for tasmania that I've seen before include "somewhere in Antipodes?" , "Aussie island state" , "State off 23 [VICTORIA]" , "Australian island state" , "mountainous island" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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