{{Short description|Lottery brand in Queensland}} {{For|the 2021 album by Modest Mouse|The Golden Casket}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox company | name = Golden Casket | logo = File:Goldencasket Logo.png | parent = The Lottery Corporation
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'''Golden Casket''' is the lottery corporation in Queensland. It sells lottery tickets and Instant Scratch-Its (scratchcards) through newsagents and other convenience stores. Lottery draws are televised on Channel Seven six nights a week.
The drawing of the first Golden Casket in 1917 by Queensland Patriotic Fund was to raise money to support veterans of World War I with a first prize of £5,000 (around $500,000 in 2019 currency). The operation was taken over by the Queensland Government in 1920. In 1938, the Casket paid for the construction of the new Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thelott.com/goldencasket/about/our-history|title = About Us | Australia's Official Lotteries | the Lott}}</ref> The Council of Churches, representing the evangelical churches of Queensland, was firmly opposed to government support for gambling, arguing that it legitimized an immoral industry.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50032896 |title=Casket evil, says Baptist |newspaper=The Courier-mail |issue=4305 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=13 September 1950 |accessdate=21 April 2025 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In April 2007 the Queensland Government sold the Golden Casket operation to gambling company Tattersall's Limited for $530 million, with the proceeds going to the Royal Children's Hospital and the state government retaining ownership of the Golden Casket trademark via the Queensland Lottery Corporation.<ref>{{cite report|author= |author-link= |date= 12 August 2020|title= Queensland Lottery Corporation Pty Ltd - Financial Report for the year ended 30 June 2020|url= https://documents.parliament.qld.gov.au/tableOffice/TabledPapers/2020/5620T1817.pdf|publisher= Queensland Government|page= 1|docket= |access-date= 4 February 2024|quote=}}</ref>
On 1 June 2016 the Golden Casket brand became one of the four Tatts Group. It now sits under the brand 'The Lott' (which also includes Tatts, NSW Lotteries and SA Lotteries) is owned by The Lottery Corporation.
==Lottery Games== Golden Casket's lottery games include Oz Lotto, Powerball, Saturday Gold Lotto, Weekday Windfall, Set For Life, Super '66', Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot and Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot and Instant Scratch-Its.
==In popular culture== Winning the Golden Casket is a major event in Neville Shute's novel A Town Like Alice.
==See also== {{portal|Australia|Companies}} *Lotteries in Australia
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://thelott.com/goldencasket/ Golden Casket Lottery Corporation] * [https://thelott.com/ The Lott] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707232009/https://www.thelott.com/ |date=7 July 2020 }} * [https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/tqqf2h/alma99260913402061 Golden Casket Oral History], State Library of Queensland
Category:Lotteries in Australia Category:Companies based in Queensland
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