Australasia Lottery Information

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Oceania is a term meant to refer to a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. This geographical region is often referred to as Australasia as well. In this region, playing the lottery is quite popular as a form of entertainment for adults. The Australia Lottery and the New Zealand Lottery are both very popular lotteries and both offer a wide variety of lottery games for all gambling personalities. There are lotteries in New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Victoria, The Northern Territory, Western Australia, Northern Mariana Islands, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand.

Lottery games in Australia are numerous. Some of the lottery games in Australia have been around since the early 70's. Lottery games these days are government managed to protect the citizens from corrupt game runners and much of the revenue generated by the lottery sales is put back into the community with such things as educational improvements. Coupled with the benefit of winning cash prizes, the Australia lottery is a favorite lottery system in the region.

In such places as Western Australia, Northern Territory, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales, lottery games like Lotto and Lotto Strike are popular. Other games include OZ Lotto, Powerball, Gold Lotto, Casket Lotto, Keno, Super 66, Tatts Lotto, Cash 3 and what are called Scratchies. Sports pools like soccer pools are also quite popular forms of lotteries.

New Zealand lotteries are huge as well. There are numerous lottery games for the lotto player to choose from. New Zealand lotto games like Powerball lotto and Big Wednesday lottery games are turning lotto players into millionaires. Lotto, Lotto Strike, Keno and Instant Kiwi are popular lottery games offered in New Zealand as well.

Papua New Guinea offers lottery games to lotto players as well. Lotto Management Services heads up the lottery program in Papua New Guinea.

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Australasia / Oceania Lottery News

February 16th, 2012

Amaya deploys national SMS-based lottery in Moldova

February 14th, 2012

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- The publisher of a gaming magazine said the day may come when lottery jackpots pass the $500 million mark.

February 14th, 2012

The new director of Arkansas' lottery said Monday that he wants to focus on boosting ticket sales and that he does not plan to hire vice presidents for the commission.

February 15th, 2012

New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin, whose parents are Taiwanese, has boosted the island's sport lottery sales by 50 percent since he became a NBA sensation last week, the lotto company said Wednesday.

February 16th, 2012

HAMPTON A Hampton man won $250,000 in the Virginia Lottery’s Red Hot 5s Doubler game. Marcellus Gray knew he had won a large prize, but he didn’t realize he had won the scratch ticket game’s top prize, a lottery news release says. He told lottery officials he has no immediate plans for his winnings.

February 16th, 2012

Eight malnourished horses were found on a 40-acre ranch northeast of Sanger that is owned by a couple who a decade ago won a $40 million California Lottery jackpot.

February 16th, 2012

Eight malnourished horses were found on a 40-acre ranch that is owned by a couple who a decade ago won a $40 million California Lottery jackpot. Click to Continue »

February 15th, 2012

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February 14th, 2012

A Detroit Pistons fan's notes: The 2012 NBA draft lottery already has become the top priority for some of my fellow and sister Pistons fans. They professed to be pleased, for example, with the home-floor blowout loss to the Washington Wizards because this lifted the Wiz's...

February 15th, 2012

A CNN producer could soon be producing a segment on her own uncanny luck in the lottery. According to an...

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