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In Australia, the slots machines are also known as ‘video poker’, ‘pokies’ or ‘poker machines’, but officially they are known as the Gaming Machines. Video displays are used in the slots machines of Australian style for stimulating the physical reels, generally five reels are used. The features of second screen and extra bonus for the players likewise in the free games and the levels of bonuses are also comprised in these machines. The multiple lines up to 50 or multiple ways up to 243 are also allowed for playing by the players.

The laws for the use of gaming machines are regulated by the state governments in Australia, and they differ from state-to-state.

The machines for playing the slots machine games for the purpose of gambling are located in the casinos as well as clubs and pubs in a number of states. It means almost in every major city, one is found usually in the sports, RSL or social clubs. The Australian state that has firstly legalized his gambling style was New South Wales in the year 1956, when they were legalized in the entire clubs in the state. Some suggestions are there regarding the proliferation of the online slots machines of poker gaming that has led towards increasing the levels of ‘problem gambling’.

In 1999, it has been reported by the Australian Productivity Commission that there are around 180,000 machines of poker gaming in Australia, which are more than the half of the machines in New South Wales. 21% can be represented in terms of figures regarding the availability of all the gambling machines in the entire world of gambling, and on the basis of per capita, roughly, there are more than five times gaming machines in Australia as compare to US. It accounts more than the ½ of the 4 billion dollars as the revenue arrives from the gambling machines in clubs and pubs collected by the government of state in the years 2002-03.

In the Queensland, 85% return rate is provided by the gaming machines in clubs and pubs, while 90% return rate is provided by the machines situated in the casinos. Most of the other states obtaining the provisions similar to it.

In Western Australia, the gaming machines are only permitted to use in some particular forms in the casino of Bursewood rather than the use of any other gaming machine elsewhere. This policy is most restrictive in Australia and based on the long history and was affirmed again into gambling by the 1974 Royal Commission:

"Playing through slots machines of poker is a tedious, monotonous and dangerous type of gambling having various unnecessary features. It does not require any thought, skill or contact with society. No winning odds are there. To observe the players playing for the long time with these Slots machines, at least the most impressionistic fact regarding it is that the people have got addictive towards it. It was banned in the past to gamble through the poker machines in Western Australia and it is considered to stay banned in the public interest."

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