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Losing Streak: How Tasmania Was Gamed by the Gambling Industry

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Losing Streak: How Tasmania Was Gamed by the Gambling Industry

SKU: 9781863959100 Category: Product ID: 140752

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Title: Losing Streak: How Tasmania Was Gamed by the Gambling Industry
Author: BOYCE JAMES
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 27/02/2017
Imprint: PENGUIN
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active

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.

ISBN: 9781863959100
Pages: 192