Possible Clues:

• * It's not an obsession with police stun guns
• Island beginning to show passion supporting volunteers
• Hobart is the capital of this Australian island
• Island's voluntary organisation bringing in a second chap to join first person
• Start to tour small island in large continent; this?
• State of Australia when obsession follows start of Test
• Devil's domain?
• Time chap is in East, in Commonwealth state
• It's a man in distress on a South Pacific island
• State army's violence