Losing Streak: How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry

A jaw-dropping account of how one company came to own every poker machine in 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 the most disadvantaged state in the country 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.

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Losing Streak: How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry

A jaw-dropping account of how one company came to own every poker machine in 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 the most disadvantaged state in the country 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.

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Losing Streak: How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry

Losing Streak: How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry

by James Boyce
Losing Streak: How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry

Losing Streak: How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry

by James Boyce

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A jaw-dropping account of how one company came to own every poker machine in 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 the most disadvantaged state in the country 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781863959100
Publisher: Black Inc. Redback
Publication date: 03/14/2017
Series: Redback , #11
Pages: 258
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.54(d)

Table of Contents

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

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