Lotteries in Australia

Lotteries in Australia include various lottery related products licensed by Australian lottery companies. Lotteries operators are licensed at a state or territory level, and include both state government-owned and private sector companies.

As of August 2008, the major players in the lotteries industry include:

  • Tatts Group Limited, which operates under the "Tatts" brand in Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory, as well as managing Queensland's Golden Casket Lottery Corporation (which it took over from the Queensland government in 2007) and from 1 April 2010, New South Wales Lotteries in NSW and the ACT;
  • Intralot Australia, which operates under "Intralot" in Victoria and Tasmania; and
  • state government-owned corporations, including South Australian Lotteries; and Lotterywest, operating in Western Australia.

Although the organisations are predominantly state-based, Australia has a number of national lottery games. Currently, Tattersall's and the state-owned lotteries operate as a bloc to jointly conduct the national games, pooling their entries and winnings. For example, Tattersall's administers the Saturday Lotto (known as Tattslotto in its jurisdictions), Oz Lotto and Powerball games on behalf of the bloc; similarly, South Australian Lotteries operate the Australian Soccer Pools on behalf of the other operators. The major operators also market lottery games traditionally running in their own jurisdiction, however recently some of these have become "multi-state" games, if not national.

Australian lotteries are subject to many regulations, which generally vary by state. The minimum age to purchase lottery products is 16.

In August 2008, at a homecoming ceremony for Australian Olympic athletes, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he was considering a UK-style national lottery to fund Australia's Olympic sports.

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