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Australia Loves the Poquies
Australia has 21% of the world's high intensity electronic gaming machines colloquially called poquies. In 2021, poke machine turnover in New South Wales is expected to be $95 billion. A great deal of that was dirty money from criminal elements being laundered through the poquies,. As to where this love affair with poquies began, you can trace it back to 1956. The Karl Labour government brought in poquies in clubs in the state and then of course they spread from there.
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