{"id":777015720,"date":"2024-05-22T09:32:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T12:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777015720"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:01:09","slug":"bws-gains-licence-for-new-south-wales-lottery-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/bws-gains-licence-for-new-south-wales-lottery-sales","title":{"rendered":"BWS gains licence for New South Wales lottery sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three BWS stores have secured a licence to sell lottery products in Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- Beer, Wine and Spirits (BWS), an Australian retail chain of liquor stores owned by Endeavour Group, has been granted a licence to sell lottery products at three\u00a0stores in\u00a0Sydney, New South Wales (NSW).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move was criticised by the Gambling Reform Alliance. It says lottery should not have more lenient treatment than other forms of gambling, noting that a study published in the Addictive Behaviors journal said nearly one-third of people who exclusively gamble on lotteries are at some level of risk related to gambling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/report-released-on-first-nsw-cashless-gaming-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Report released on first NSW cashless gaming trial<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since a law change in 2015, lottery tickets\u00a0in NSW have been sold\u00a0in various types of stores, such as news agencies, grocery stores, gas stations and liquor stores. Before 2015, only newsagents could sell tickets.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three BWS stores have secured a licence to sell lottery products in Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":22356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Endeavour Group's subsidiary, BWS, has secured licenses to sell lottery products at three Sydney stores in New South Wales, Australia. This expansion, facilitated by a 2015 regulatory amendment, has drawn criticism from the Gambling Reform Alliance, which advocates for consistent regulatory treatment across all gambling verticals due to associated risks.","focusai_entities":"BWS, Endeavour Group, Gambling Reform Alliance, Addictive Behaviors journal","focusai_location":"Sydney, New South Wales, Australia","focusai_target_profile":"regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), ceo_executive (0.7), investor_analyst (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Discrepancies?","query":"What specific regulatory discrepancies between lottery products and other gambling verticals in NSW are highlighted by the Gambling Reform Alliance's criticism, and what are the potential implications for future legislative harmonization?"},{"label":"Impact on Endeavour GGR?","query":"How is Endeavour Group projecting the incremental GGR and NGR from this lottery product expansion, and what are the associated compliance costs and regulatory risks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157],"tags":[3573],"class_list":["post-777015720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777015720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777015727,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015720\/revisions\/777015727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777015720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777015720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777015720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}