Nathan Hauritz rounded off an outstanding summer by bowling Australia to a Test victory for the third successive occasion as the home side completed a record-equalling 12th successive win against Pakistan at Bellerive Oval.
Australia needed until only an hour after lunch to bowl Pakistan out for 206 as the visitors never threatened to get anywhere near their record victory target of 438 and lost by 231 runs.
Only recalled number three batsman Khurram Manzoor offered any resistance on the final day with a gutsy half-century to make amends for his first-innings duck.
The result secured a fourth successive 3-0 clean sweep of Pakistan by Australia in a Test series and equals the record for most successive Test wins by any team against the same opponent in Test history - 12, which was held solely by Sri Lanka against Bangladesh.
And it means Australia have now won five of six Tests this summer - with only a draw in the second Test against the West Indies in Adelaide preventing a clean sweep of a summer in which Hauritz came of age as well as all-rounder Shane Watson who was adjudged player of the series.
After taking his first five-wicket hauls in the second innings of Australia's wins in Melbourne and Sydney, Hauritz helped himself to three more on the final day in Hobart to finish with an impressive 29 wickets in six Tests for the summer.
And considering that before this summer Hauritz had taken just 24 wickets in seven Test matches, it shows just how much the off-spinner has improved this summer - particularly during the three-Test series against Pakistan in which he claimed 18 wickets at an average of 23.05 during the three Tests.
Hauritz's haul on the final day also included the key wicket of Manzoor, who, after being recalled to the team for this Test after being overlooked for Pakistan's defeats in Melbourne and Sydney, batted through the entire two-and-a-half-hour first session as play began 30 minutes early to make up for play lost on day four.
Resuming at 103 for four, Pakistan had reached 168 for six at lunch and after a light shower hit the ground during the lunch break there was a chance the visitors could well have hung on for an undeserved draw after being thoroughly outplayed for five days.
But Hauritz ended Pakistan's slim hopes of avoiding another defeat 25 minutes after lunch when he had Manzoor caught behind by keeper Brad Haddin for 77 as his patient 315-minute vigil finally came to an end.
With Pakistan's last remaining specialist batsman gone, the tail offered little resistance as Hauritz claimed Umar Gul for a duck - courtesy of a sharp catch by Michael Clarke at first slip - while Mitchell Johnson then snared his first wicket of the match when he bowled Mohammad Asif for a duck before Peter Siddle finished the match off when he bowled Danish Kaneria for one with just the second over of the new ball.
Earlier Australia had appeared on course to wrap the game up even before lunch when Siddle struck immediately when he had Shoaib Malik caught behind for 19 to give Haddin his 100th Test catch in his 25th Test match before Hauritz grabbed his first wicket of the innings from his very first ball on day five in bizarre fashion.
Haddin was involved in the dismissal again as keeper Sarfraz Ahmed edged a straight Hauritz delivery onto Haddin's pad with the ball then rebounding to Clarke at first slip.
But Clarke fumbled the catch at first before luckily grabbing it at the second attempt after it rebounded off his boot.
Australian captain Ricky Ponting was named man of the match for his sparkling knocks of 209 and 89.
