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.
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Pokie
//ˈpəʊki//
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2006, author not known, Sydney City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 148, In reality, the cheap beer and walls of pokies attract anyone and everyone.
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None of these people around me punching the pokies has walked in here today expecting to be a loser.
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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.
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