Newsagents are continuing to fight to exclusively sell lottery products, following Friday night's meeting with the Newsagents Association of NSW and ACT (NANA).
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NANA CEO Andrew Packham said there was a record-breaking crowd at the Dubbo meeting with one newsagent travelling four hours from Bourke to attend.
The meeting was held to discuss the end of the moratorium that was put in place in 2010 to prevent supermarkets and big retailers from selling lottery tickets and scratchies.
The moratorium expires on April 1, 2015 and Tatts Lotto have already approached Woolworths about selling lottery products.
Mr Packham said the meeting was very positive.
"[The newsagents] had the opportunity to ask anything so they understand the process and they realise it's not going to be sold overnight," he said.
Snare's Talbragar Newsagency owner Peter Snare said he found the meeting constructive.
"The chief executive provided a bit of a background to everything and our position is that we're continuing to promote the petition," Mr Snare said.
The petition is calling for the NSW Lotteries Agency Protection Period to be extended past April 1.
"We've got a lot of signatures on it. People are coming into the shop just to sign the petition," Mr Snare said.
He said one newsagent in Dubbo collected 1200 signatures in two days.
"We're hoping people power will work."
Mr Snare said he was going to continue to work hard and pray hard for the newsagents.
Meetings with NANA and newsagents are still being held and Mr Packham said he was continuing to fight on behalf of the industry.
"We're currently in intense dialogue with the government and with the opposition. We'll continue to do that and brief our agents as we go," he said.
"We'll keep going until we get what we want."
Mr Packham said he would like NSW and ACT to follow in Queensland's footsteps and have it ingrained in law that only small businesses can sell Lotto.
