摘要：Kevin Rudd hates them. Brendan Nelson has expressed deep concern about them. Bob Brown wants huge cuts to their numbers. And Senators Stephen Fielding and Nick Xenophon rant against them at every opportunity.
Dislike of poker machines is so universal that it joined the Costello brothers in rare unanimity on a public policy issue. Regular adversaries Andrew Bolt and Stephen Mayne at least share in common the fact that they have both campaigned strongly against them. And, in the perhaps ultimate recognition, a trendy leftie band produced a song attacking them.
