From veterans to millennials, two-up is a celebrated pastime on Anzac Day. But why do we play it?
"Some guys were quite prudish about the whole thing and they didn't drink and didn't gamble," Dr Hampton said.
Broken Hill in NSW is one of the two places where it was now legal year-round, according to Esther La Rovere, manager at the city's Palace Hotel. The other is Kalgoorlie. Inside, they would find plates of food and a group of jovial men, sometimes with their whole pay packet in their pockets.
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