Powerball is a lottery operated by Tatts Group under the master brand, the Lott and its licensed subsidiaries including New South Wales Lotteries in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Tattersalls in Victoria and Tasmania, Golden Casket in Queensland, and South Australian Lotteries in South Australia. The Government owned Lotterywest operates the lottery in Western Australia.
In 2017 Tatts Group combined with Tabcorp Holdings Limited under the Tabcorp brand.
Lotteries in Australia include various lottery related products licensed by the Lott and Lotterywest Australian lottery companies. Lotteries operators are licensed at a state or territory level, and include both state government-owned, not-for-profit and private sector companies. Most major Lotteries have now moved into the online marketplace.
The Totalisator Agency Board, universally shortened to TAB or T.A.B., is the name given to monopoly totalisator organisations in Australia and New Zealand. They operate betting shops and online betting. They were originally government owned, but in Australia most have been privatised. In Victoria, for instance, the Victorian Totalisator Agency Board began operating in March 1961 as a state enterprise, and was privatised in 1994.
South Australian Lotteries, is a lottery company that operates in the Australian state of South Australia. While the license to operate lotteries in South Australia is owned by the South Australian Government they in turn appointed Tatts Group Pty Ltd as the Master Agent and license holder. SA Lotteries operates under Tatts Group's master brand the Lott.
TattsLotto is a weekly lottery game played on Saturday nights in Australia, known as Saturday Lotto in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia, and Gold Lotto in Queensland. It was the first European-format "lotto" style lottery in Australia.
Scientific Games Corporation is an American corporation that provides gambling products and services to lottery and gambling organizations across the globe. The company is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. Its products include computerized and mechanical slot machines, table game theme copyrights, electronic card shufflers,instant lottery games, lottery gaming systems, terminals and services, internet applications, server-based interactive gambling terminals, gambling control systems, social gaming, and sports betting.
New South Wales Lotteries, is a corporation owned by the Government of New South Wales in Australia. Since March 2, 2010, it has been operated by Tatts Group Limited under a 40-year exclusive licence. It runs games of chance through a network of agents, most of which are newsagencies. It falls under the government portfolio of Gaming and Racing and is governed by the Public Lotteries Act 1996.
Golden Casket is the public limited lottery corporation in Queensland trading on ASX, Australia. It sells lottery tickets and Instant Scratch-Its tickets (scratchcards) through newsagents and other convenience stores. Lottery draws are televised on Channel Seven four nights a week.
The Delaware Lottery is run by the government of Delaware. Its creation was authorized by the state legislature on May 31, 1974. Its "traditional" games include Play 3, Play 4, Multi-Win Lotto, Lucky For Life, Lotto America, Mega Millions, and Powerball. Delaware also offers Keno, sports betting, and video lottery.
The Michigan Lottery offers numerous on-line and scratch-off games, giving players a wide variety of prize possibilities. Initiated under the authority of Public Act 239 in 1972, the games collect funds to support Michigan’s public school system.
George Adams was an Australian publican and lottery promoter best known as the founder of Tattersall's.
Oz Lotto is a national lottery game, owned by Tatts Group and administered by its lottery brand 'the Lott' in all Australian States with the exception of Western Australia, where the lottery is administered by Lotterywest. The draw takes place each Tuesday at 8.30pm AEST. It was introduced on 26 February 1994 and promoted as Australia's first fully national lottery game, at a time when New South Wales was not a part of the Australian Lotto Bloc. Each game costs $1.10 plus agent's commission.
Gambling in New Zealand is controlled by the Department of Internal Affairs. All public gambling is expected to return a portion of profits to the community. The largest proportion of the gambling industry is operated by state-owned institutions. Expenditure on gambling was $NZ 2.034 billion in 2008, a tenfold increase over 1985 figures.
Gambling is an activity undertaken by many Australians. Over 80% of Australian adults engage in gambling of some kind, which is the highest rate of gambling in the world. This number includes some 4% of the adult population who play the pokies once a week, accounting for some 62% of locals' annual gambling spend.
Jumbo Interactive Limited is an Australian corporation and re-seller of lottery games in Australia under agreement with Government Licensed Lottery Operator Tatts Group. Jumbo Interactive operates ozlotteries.com, one of Australia's largest e-commerce websites retailing Australian lotteries, such as Saturday Lotto, Oz Lotto and Powerball. Jumbo Interactive is a publicly listed corporation on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:JIN).
Ubet is an Australian betting brand established in 2015 to rebrand of Tatts Group's wagering business which previously traded as TAB and TattsBet. Historically owned by the Tatts Group since their privatisation by their respective state governments, the four UBET companies are now wholly owned subsidiaries of Tabcorp Holdings Limited as a result of a merger between the Tatts and Tabcorp companies in 2017. UBET operates the statewide Totalisator Agency Board (TAB) agencies in Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory and provides both pari mutuel and fixed odds wagering on thoroughbred racing, harness racing and greyhound racing, as well as major local and international sports events through a network of retail agencies, telephone call centre, on-course betting facilities, its website and mobile apps.
Tattersall's Sweeps, also known as Tatts Lottery, is the subsidiary company of Tatts Group, a public company trading on ASX, Australia. Tattersall's Sweeps is the official licensed operator of lotteries by the Victorian Government. Operating under the brand Tatts, it sells lottery tickets in Australia through the thelott.com website, newsagents, other convenience stores. The company commenced the sale of Instant Scratch-Its tickets (scratchcards) in Victoria in February 2015.
Lottoland Limited is a company based in Gibraltar. One of its main areas of business is offering online bets on the results of more than 30 lottery draws.
The Lott also known as Thelott Enterprises Pty Ltd is an Australian lotteries brand encompassing the government licensed lottery businesses Golden Casket, NSW Lotteries, Tattersall's Sweeps and SA Lotteries owned by the Tatts Group. The Lott is owned by Tatts Group Limited and operates lotteries in all Australian States with the exception of Western Australia.
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