A lucky ticket holder in Australia has won the $20 million Powerball jackpot in the first draw of 2025.
The first Powerball Australia lottery draw of 2025 took place this Thursday, and a jackpot of $20M was at stake. The jackpot was immediately hit! The winning ticket was bought at a petrol station at Woolworths Petrol-Prestons in south-west Sydney. The winner will receive the full $20 million, as winnings in this lottery are not taxed in Australia. The draw also saw two winners take home $241,154.45 each, while almost 57 third division winners became richer by over $10.5K.
The winning combination was of Powerball Australia. This comes after a record jackpot of $200M was hit in February last year – and by two winners at once. In the US, the Powerball lottery has seen some massive jackpots recently. On November 7, 2022, a ticket purchased at Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, California, won Edwin Castro $2.04 billion. The lucky winner was offered the winnings in equal shares over 30 years, but he refused, preferring to take the $997.6 million at once. And almost a year later, in October 2023, another lucky Powerball ticket was purchased in California, bringing $1.765 billion – the largest jackpot in the history of lotteries. And the winner also refused the annuity, preferring everything at once. So, as we can see, the still-unnamed lucky Aussie is a real pauper compared to Mr. Castro…, although many people on Facebook were quite ironic about the winner. “20 million… barely a house these days,” one of the responders wrote sarcastically, hinting at the incredible high cost of real estate in Australia in recent years
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