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As of August 2008, the major players in the lotteries industry include:
- Tatts Group Limited, which operates under the 'Tattersall's Lotteries' brand in Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory, as well as Queensland's Golden Casket Lottery Corporation (which it took over from the Queensland government in 2007[1]);
- Intralot Australia, which operates under the brand 'The Luck Factory' in Victoria and Tasmania; and
- state government-owned corporations, including New South Wales Lotteries, which operates in New South Wales and the ACT; 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, poolling their entries and winnings. For example, Tattersalls 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 from state to state. Lottery products can only be bought by persons over the age of 16 or 18 years, depending on the state.
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