Losing Streak: How Tasmania Was Gamed by the Gambling Industry by James Boyce

Losing Streak: How Tasmania Was Gamed by the Gambling Industry

Redback Quarterly #11

James Boyce

248 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction politics informative medium-paced
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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...

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