Can poker machine reform save Dominic Perrottet from polls suggesting he’ll lose power in NSW?

As NSW prepares to head to the polls Dominic Perrottet’s commitment to cashless gaming has dominated headlines of the election campaign. Photograph: Kate Geraghty/AAP

As a university student in the 1970s, Michael Yabsley’s first job was in the pokies room of the Lismore Workers Club, where he brought drinks to the “little old ladies” putting cash into the machines.

“I’ll never forget the briefing when I started,” he told the Guardian this week.