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Author Boyce, James (Historian), author.

Title Losing streak : how Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry / James Boyce
Published Carlton, Vic. : Black Inc., 2017

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Summary 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. -- -- Losing Streak 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
Analysis Australian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-248)
Subject Slot machines -- Licenses -- Australia -- Tasmania
Gambling -- Social aspects -- Australia -- Tasmania
Gambling -- Economic aspects -- Australia -- Tasmania
Gambling -- Government policy -- Australia -- Tasmania
Political corruption -- Australia -- Tasmania
Democracy -- Australia -- Tasmania
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Democracy
Gambling -- Economic aspects
Gambling -- Government policy
Gambling -- Social aspects
Political corruption
Tasmania
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781925435528
1925435520