Players from Australia form a significant section of the online casino industry. Online casinos offer special facilities to these players like accepting deposits in Australian dollars. Another attraction offered to players from Australia is online slots with Australian themes. This article selects some of the best of such slot machines from the portfolios of leading software providers.

Rival Gaming has a slot game titled Diamonds Down Under, which is an obvious reference to Australia’s diamond mining industry. The introductory clip shows the miner locating a mine on the map and heading there. The thematic symbols include diamonds, miner, map and pickaxe. Other symbols include Australian animals like kangaroo, koala bear, crocodile and lizard. The Aborigine and the boomerang also appear as symbols. The free spins feature offers up to 100 free spins at tripled payouts and the bonus game on the second screen has players digging for diamonds and earning bonus credits. The pickaxe is the wild symbol, the Aborigine triggers the free spins and the map triggers the bonus game.

Gold mining is also prevalent in Australia and the online slot game Kanga Cash from the software provider Cryptologic takes up this theme. The symbols depicting gold mining include the prospector, his shed, hat with hanging corks and back pack. The Australian animals are koala bear, dingo, ostrich, kangaroo and cockatoo. Australian outback music accompanies winning combinations. The kangaroo is the wild symbol, which doubles payouts and awards 15 free spins at tripled payouts to the player. The shed is the scatter symbol and awards scatter payouts.

Red Sands is the Australian themed online slot game from the software provider Realtime Gaming. It refers to the vast Australian deserts that are covered with red sands. Again local animals such as echidna, wombat, koala and kangaroo appear on the reels. Red Sands offers an unusual Re-Spin feature, which is awarded when two or more Moonscapes symbols appear on the reels. The reels on which the Moonscapes symbols appear are held while the other reels spin up to 10 times. Red Sands also has the RTG randomly triggered progressive jackpot.

Microgaming has an online slot game titled No Worries, which reflects the laid back attitude of the Australians. The animals are crafted in a comical manner in keeping with the theme and include koala, wallaby, platypus, wombat, kookaburra and tazza. The win animations are also hilarious. The other symbols include boomerang and playing card icons crafted in Aboriginal style. The boomerang awards up to 25 free spins at a multiplier that can go as high as 8 times. The wombat triggers a pick a prize bonus game on the second screen.

In the other Australian themed slot games, the following also deserve mention, though they address a very specific issue. Aussie Rules is football played under a set of rules formulated in Australia and Rival Gaming offers a slot game based on this. Cryptologic offers a slot game titled Thunder from Down Under, which is based on the popular male revue from Australia. The highlight of this slot game is the male strip show during the winning combinations.