The first Powerball Australia lottery draw of 2025 saw a $20 million jackpot won by a single ticket holder in south-west Sydney. The winning ticket was purchased at a petrol station. The article also highlights other recent Powerball wins, both in Australia and the US.
The first Powerball Australia lottery draw of 2025 took place this Thursday, and a jackpot of $20M was at stake. And so it happened that the jackpot was immediately hit! The winning ticket was bought at a petrol station at Woolworths Petrol-Prestons in south-west Sydney. In other words, the winner takes home exactly 20 million – because while winnings in this lottery are taxable in the US, they are not taxed in Australia.
So now the number of multimillionaires among Aussies has increased by one person. And by the way, they are not the only lucky person in this drawing. Two other players each pocketed $241,154.45, while almost 57 third division winners became richer by over $10.5K. If you participated in this drawing – please hurry up and check your tickets. The winning combination was [winning combination] of Powerball Australia. In February last year, a record jackpot of $200M was hit – and by two winners at once. Accordingly, each became $100M richer. The Powerball lottery is also popular in the US. On November 7, 2022, a ticket purchased at Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, California, brought 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 biggest 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. Although, of course, the author of this comment is exaggerating
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