Losing Streak
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Losing Streak

How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Losing Streak

How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry

About this book

A jaw-dropping account of how one company came to own every poker machine in the state of Tasmania – and the cost to democracy, the public purse and problem gamblers and their families.The story begins with the toppling of a premier, and ends with David Walsh, the man behind MONA, taking an eccentric stand against pokie machines and the political status quo.It is a story of broken politics and back-room deals. It shows how giving one company the licence to all the poker machines in Tasmania has led to several hundred million dollars of profits (mainly from problem gamblers) being diverted from public use, through a series of questionable and poorly understood deals. Losing Streak is a meticulous, compelling case study in governance failure, which has implications for pokies reform throughout Australia.James Boyce is the acclaimed author of Van Diemen's Land, 1835 and Born Bad. His books have been shortlisted for almost every major Australian literary award and he has won the Tasmania Book Prize on two occasions. He is also a professional social worker, who worked for many years in social policy and research and has been involved in the poker-machine debate for nearly twenty years.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Author’s Note
  6. Foreword
  7. Chapter 1: The Fight for the First Casino
  8. Chapter 2: Monopoly Lost? The Bethune Government and the Northern Casino
  9. Chapter 3: Was the Deputy Premier Bribed?
  10. Chapter 4: Monopoly Won
  11. Chapter 5: The Pokies Push
  12. Chapter 6: The Deal of the Century
  13. Chapter 7: Bringing Home the Bacon, 1998–2003
  14. Chapter 8: The Deal of the Millennium
  15. Chapter 9: Federal Invests, 2004–08
  16. Chapter 10: ‘Not Fit to Be Premier’
  17. Chapter 11: Winner and Losers
  18. Chapter 12: Mates in Crisis, 2008–14
  19. Chapter 13: The David Walsh Wild Card
  20. Chapter 14: Conflicts of Interest
  21. Chapter 15: Hope in a Cynical World
  22. Epilogue: Back to the Future
  23. Notes
  24. Back Cover

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