Pokie

For several decades until the early 1990s, Echuca–Moama existed in the consciousness of Melburnians as the destination for pokie bus-trips. All of this changed when the Kennett Government legalised pokies in Victoria in 1993.

2006, author not known, Sydney City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 148, In reality, the cheap beer and walls of pokies attract anyone and everyone.

None of these people around me punching the pokies has walked in here today expecting to be a loser.

I was also shocked that the poker machines (which we call pokies back home) were on full display, as in Australia, they legally have to be in a separate room.