James Boyce (author)

James Boyce is an author, historian and an honorary research associate at the University of Tasmania[1] from Tasmania, Australia. He has written four major books on Australian history and the history of western thought.

Boyce received a PhD from the University of Tasmania in Geography and Environmental Studies.[2]

He has won several awards for his books including The Age Book of the Year Award, the Tasmania Book Prize twice, and the Colin Roderick Award, as well as being short listed for various other prestigious awards including the Prime Minister's Literary Award, and the Victorian, NSW and Western Australian Premier's Awards.[3]

Gambling industry

Following his writing of Losing Streak, Boyce became closely related to efforts to control the poker machine industry in Tasmania and in Australia. This work built on his previous career in social work and social policy research.

He has been called before parliamentary committees to give evidence about the harms of the industry as well as the history,[4][5] as well as working with members of parliament with similar goals.[6]

He has also written extensively in the Australian press on the topic, specifically about the deals that allowed Federal Group to gain a monopoly on Tasmania's two casinos and all the state's poker machines.[7][8][9] He continued the fight against the Farrel family and their intervention into Tasmanian politics to ensure the continuation of their monopolies,[10] and he was particularly scathing about their conduct during the 2018 Tasmanian state election, where Boyce claimed that "we are watching an election being bought before our eyes" due to the massive advertising blitz that the gambling industry poured into the campaign after the Labor Party promised to phase out all poker machines.[11]

Bibliography

Boyce has written several books about a variety of topics:

  • Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens. Icon Books. 2020 ISBN 9781785786501
  • Losing Streak: How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry. Black Inc. Redback. 2017. ISBN 978-1863959100
  • Born Bad: Original Sin and the Making of the Western World. Black Inc 2015, Counterpoint. 2016. ISBN 978-1619024984
  • 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia. Black Inc. 2011. ISBN 978-1863956000
  • Van Dieman’s Land. Black Inc. 2008. ISBN 978-1863954914

References
  1. "James Boyce - Profiles". Profiles - University of Tasmania, Australia. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
  2. "James Boyce". The Tasmanian Writers' Centre. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
  3. "James Boyce". Black Inc. 2009-04-20. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
  4. www.parliament.tas.gov.au (PDF) http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/ctee/Joint/Transcripts/FGM/fgm.evi.170208.Transcript.jt.a.pdf. Retrieved 2018-12-24. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. MALONEY, MATT (2017-02-08). "Gambling inquiry day two wrap". The Examiner. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
  6. Dunlevie, ABC News: James (2018-01-16). "Historian James Boyce and Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie look at Boyce's book 'Losing Streak'". ABC News. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
  7. Anonymous (2013-12-20). "James Boyce". The Monthly. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
  8. "Australia is the world's leader when it comes to gambling". Radio National. 2018-04-11. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
  9. Markham, Francis; Kinder, Barbara; Young, Martin (2017-04-05). "How Federal Hotels monopolised pokies in Tasmania". ABC News. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
  10. Kinder, Barbara; Markham, Francis; Young, Martin. "How one family used pokies and politics to extract a fortune from Tasmanians". The Conversation. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
  11. O'Malley, Nick (2018-03-02). "Tasmanian pokies storm to hit the mainland". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
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